Reanalysis of the Higgs-boson decay $H\to gg$ up to ${\alpha }_s^6$-order level using the principle of maximum conformality

Abstract

Using the newly available ${\alpha }_s^6$-order QCD correction to the Higgs decay channel $H\to gg$, we make a detailed discussion on the perturbative properties of the decay width $\Gamma (H\to gg)$ by using the principle of maximum conformality (PMC). The PMC provides a way to eliminate the conventional renormalization scheme-and-scale ambiguities, which uses the renormalization group equation to determine the optimal running behavior of the strong coupling constant at each order via a recursive way. Even though there is no ambiguity for setting the renormalization scale, there is residual scale dependence for the PMC predictions due to unknown high-order terms. Using the ${\alpha }_s^6$-order terms, the somewhat larger residual renormalization scale dependence at the ${\alpha }_s^5$-order level observed in our previous work can be greatly suppressed, which shows $\Gamma (H\to gg){|}_{\mathrm{PMC}}=337.9\pm 1.7_{-0.1}^{+0.9}\pm 1.9$ KeV, where the first error is caused by the Higgs mass uncertainty $\Delta M_H=0.24$ GeV, the second one is the residual scale dependence by varying the initial choice of scale within the region of $\left[M_H/2,4M_H\right]$, and the third one is the conservative prediction of unknown high-order contributions.

Comments: 9 pages, 6 figures. Revised version to be published in J.Phys.G