Paper
Top Quark Mediated Higgs Decay into Hadrons to Order alpha(s)**5
Authors
P. A. Baikov, K. G. Chetyrkin
Abstract
We present in analytic form the O(alpha_s^5) correction to the H->gg partial width of the standard-model Higgs boson with intermediate mass M_H<2M_t. Its knowledge is useful because the O(alpha_s^4) correction is sizeable (around 20%). For M_H=120 GeV, the resulting QCD correction factor reads
1 + (215/12) alpha_s^(5)(M_H)/pi
+ 152.5 (alpha_s^(5)(M_H)/pi)^2
+ 381.5 (alpha_s^(5)(M_H)/pi)^3
\approx 1+0.65+0.20+0.02.
The new four-loop correction increases the total Higgs-boson hadronic width by a small amount of order 1 promille and stabilizes significantly the residual scale dependence.