Two-loop SQCD corrections to Higgs-quark-quark couplings in the generic MSSM

TL;DR

This paper calculates two-loop SQCD corrections to Higgs-quark-quark couplings in the MSSM, providing analytic results and resummation techniques that improve the precision of Yukawa and CKM parameter determinations for flavor physics and Higgs decay studies.

Contribution

It offers the first detailed two-loop SQCD correction calculations for Higgs-quark couplings in the MSSM with general flavor structure, including analytic formulas and resummation methods.

Findings

Two-loop corrections increase SUSY threshold effects by ~9%.

Matching scale dependence is significantly reduced.

Provides analytic results valid for general SUSY masses.

Abstract

In this article we compute the two-loop SQCD corrections to Higgs-quark-quark couplings in the generic MSSM generated by diagrams involving squarks and gluinos. We give analytic results for the two-loop contributions in the limit of vanishing external momenta for general SUSY masses valid in the MSSM with general flavour-structure. Working in the decoupling limit (M_SUSY >> v) we resum all chirally enhanced corrections (related to Higgs-quark-quark couplings) up to order \alpha_s^(n+1) tan(\beta)^n. This resummation allows for a more precise determination of the Yukawa coupling and CKM elements of the MSSM superpotential necessary for the study of Yukawa coupling unification. The knowledge of the Yukawa couplings of the MSSM superpotential in addition allows us to derive the effective Higgs-quark-quark couplings entering FCNC processes. These effective vertices can in addition be used for the calculation of Higgs decays into quarks as long as M_SUSY > M_Higgs holds. Furthermore, our calculation is also necessary for consistently including the chirally enhanced self-energies contributions into the calculation of FCNC processes in the MSSM beyond leading order. At two-loop order, we find an enhancement of the SUSY threshold corrections, induced by the quark self-energies, of approximately 9% for \mu=M_SUSY compared to the one-loop result. At the same time, the matching scale dependence of the effective Higgs-quark-quark couplings is significantly reduced.