Analytic two-loop electroweak corrections at high energies
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The pith
Analytic expressions have been obtained for two-loop electroweak corrections to four-point amplitudes at high energies in the full Standard Model.
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Core claim
Analytic high-energy calculations for two-loop four-point electroweak amplitudes in the full Standard Model have been performed. As a representative application, electroweak corrections to Higgs boson pair production show rich structures of logarithmic and power corrections with sizeable effects in the high-energy region.
What carries the argument
High-energy expansion of two-loop four-point electroweak amplitudes
Load-bearing premise
The high-energy expansion and analytic techniques used remain valid and accurate for the kinematic regions and energies relevant to phenomenological applications such as Higgs pair production.
What would settle it
A numerical computation of the two-loop amplitude for Higgs pair production at a center-of-mass energy much larger than the electroweak scale that disagrees with the analytic high-energy expansion beyond the power-suppressed terms.
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The high-energy behaviour of electroweak scattering amplitudes is of theoretical and phenomenological interest. In these proceedings, we summarize recent progress in analytic high-energy calculations for two-loop four-point electroweak amplitudes in the full Standard Model. As a representative application, we discuss the electroweak corrections to Higgs boson pair production, where rich structures of logarithmic and power corrections appear and sizeable effects are found in the high-energy region.
Editorial analysis
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Referee Report
Summary. The paper summarizes recent progress in analytic high-energy calculations for two-loop four-point electroweak amplitudes in the full Standard Model. As a representative application, it discusses the electroweak corrections to Higgs boson pair production, where rich structures of logarithmic and power corrections appear and sizeable effects are found in the high-energy region.
Significance. If the analytic results hold, this work advances the understanding of high-energy electroweak amplitudes by providing explicit expansions that reveal the structure of large logarithmic and power-suppressed terms. Such analytic control is valuable for precision phenomenology at high-energy colliders, where these corrections can be sizeable.
minor comments (1)
- [Abstract] The abstract states that the calculations are performed 'in the full Standard Model' but does not specify whether the expansions retain the full set of masses or employ any approximations beyond the high-energy limit; a brief clarification would help readers assess the scope.
Simulated Author's Rebuttal
We thank the referee for their positive assessment of the manuscript and the recommendation to accept. No major comments were raised in the report.
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No significant circularity detected
full rationale
The abstract and context describe analytic high-energy expansions for two-loop four-point electroweak amplitudes in the full SM, applied to Higgs pair production, without any visible equations, fitted parameters, or self-referential definitions. No load-bearing steps reduce predictions to inputs by construction, and the work is presented as summarizing external progress in perturbative calculations. The derivation chain is self-contained against standard QFT benchmarks, with no self-citation chains, ansatze smuggled via citation, or renaming of known results evident from the provided material.
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