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We present a detailed analysis of the rare exclusive Higgs boson decays into a single vector meson and a photon and investigate the possibility of using these processes to probe the light-quark Yukawa couplings. We work with an effective Lagrangian with modified Higgs couplings to account for possible new-physics effects in a model-independent way. The h → Vγ decay rate is governed by the destructive interference of two amplitudes, one of which involves the Higgs coupling to the quark anti-quark pair inside the vector meson. We derive this amplitude at next-to-leading order in α s using QCD factorization, including the resummation of large logarithmic corrections and accounting for the effects of flavor mixing. The high factorization scale μ ∼ m h ensures that our results are rather insensitive to the hadronic parameters characterizing the light-cone distribution amplitude of the vector meson. The second amplitude arises from the loop-induced effective hγγ* and hγZ* couplings, where the off-shell gauge boson converts into the vector meson. We devise a strategy to eliminate theoretical uncertainties related to this amplitude to almost arbitrary precision. This opens up the possibility to probe for \( \mathcal{O}(1) \) modifications of the c- and b-quark Yukawa couplings and \( \mathcal{O}(30) \) modifications of the s-quark Yukawa coupling in the high-luminosity LHC run. In particular, we show that measurements of the ratios Br(h → Υ(nS)γ)/Br(h → γγ) and \( \mathrm{B}\mathrm{r}\left(h\to b\overline{b}\right)/\mathrm{B}\mathrm{r}\left(h\to \gamma \gamma \right) \) can provide complementary information on the real and imaginary parts of the b-quark Yukawa coupling. More accurate measurements would be possible at a future 100 TeV proton-proton collider.
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König, M., Neubert, M. Exclusive radiative Higgs decays as probes of light-quark Yukawa couplings. J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 12 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2015)012
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