Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1999-03-28
Nucl.Phys. B564 (2000) 325-342
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
23 pages, 10 eps-figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00601-X
The experimental determination of the partial width $\Gamma (H \longrightarrow \gamma \gamma)$ of an intermediate mass Higgs is among the most important measurements at a future photon photon collider. Recently it was shown that large non-Sudakov as well as Sudakov double logarithmic (DL) corrections can be summed to all orders in the background process $\gamma \gamma (J_z=0) \longrightarrow q \bar{q}$. It was found that positivity and stability of the cross section was only restored at the four-loop level. One remaining large source of uncertainty stems from the fact that the scale of the strong coupling is unspecified within the double logarithmic approximation. In this paper we include the leading and next-to-leading order running coupling to all orders. We thus remove the inherent scale uncertainty of both the exact one-loop and all-orders DL result without encountering any Landau-pole singularities. The effect is significant and, for the non-Sudakov form factor, is found to correspond to an effective scale of roughly $\alpha_s(9m_q^2)$.
Melles Michael
Stirling James W.
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