Higgs two-gluon decay and the top-quark chromomagnetic moment

Abstract

We study the top quark chromomagnetic factor $\kappa_t$-dependence of the effective interaction ${\cal L}_{hgg}$ and apply the result to the case of Higgs two gluon decay rate $\Gamma_{h\to gg}$. Perturbative standard model provides $\kappa_t< 2$, and for the standard model value $\Gamma_{h\to gg}(\kappa_t)$ is suppressed by 9% as compared to $\kappa_t= 2$. We further show that in the leading order $\Gamma_{h\to gg}$ for $\kappa_t\simeq \pm 1.2$ can be very small due to complete cancelation between the top and bottom quark fluctuations. We discuss the extension of our results to $\kappa_t>2$ and consider potential paths to obtain experimental information for the $h\to gg$ rate.