Next-to-leading order QCD corrections to Higgs boson decay to quarkonium plus a photon

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the decay of the Higgs boson to J/ψ(ϒ) plus a photon based on NRQCD factorization. For the direct process, we calculate the decay width up to QCD NLO. We find that the decay width for process H → J/ψ(ϒ) + γ direct production at the LO is significantly reduced by the NLO QCD corrections. For the indirect process, we calculate the H → γ∗γ with virtual γ substantially decaying to J/ψ(ϒ), including all the SM Feynman diagrams. The decay width of indirect production is much larger than the direct decay width. Since it is very clean in experiment, the H → J/ψ(ϒ) + γ decay could be observable at a 14 TeV LHC and it also offers a new way to probe the Yukawa coupling and New Physics at the LHC.