Polarized $q\bar{q}\to Z+$Higgs amplitudes at two loops in QCD: the interplay between vector and axial vector form factors and a pitfall in applying a non-anticommuting ${\gamma }_5$

Abstract

We consider QCD corrections to two loops for the polarized amplitudes of $q\bar{q}\to Z+$ Higgs boson. First we show how the polarized amplitudes of $b\bar{b}\to Zh$ associated with a non-vanishing $b$-quark Yukawa coupling and a scalar or pseudoscalar Higgs boson $h$ can be built up solely from vector form factors (FF) of properly grouped classes of diagrams, bypassing completely the need of explicitly manipulating ${\gamma }_5$ in dimensional regularization (up to a few "anomalous", i.e., triangle diagrams). We determine the contributions of the triangle diagrams in the heavy top limit. We present the analytic results of the vector FF and the triangle-diagram contributions to the axial vector FF, which are sufficient for deriving the two-loop QCD amplitudes for $b\bar{b}\to Zh$ with a CP-even and CP-odd Higgs boson $h$. We derive the respective Ward identity for these amplitudes, which are subsequently verified to two-loop order in QCD using these FF. In addition, the FF of a class of corrections to $q\bar{q}\to ZH$ proportional to the top-Yukawa coupling are obtained analytically to two-loop order in QCD in the heavy-top limit using the Higgs-gluon effective Lagrangian where the top quark is integrated out. We address a pitfall that occurs when applying the non-anticommutating ${\gamma }_5$ prescription to this class of contributions that has been overlooked so far in the literature. We attribute this issue to the fact that the absence of certain heavy-mass expanded diagrams in the infinite-mass limit of a scattering amplitude with an axial vector current depends on the particular ${\gamma }_5$ prescription in use.

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