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4.3. R<strong>at</strong>ional Terms 124conta<strong>in</strong>s <strong>two</strong> types <strong>of</strong> pieces, a homogeneous piece, which is <strong>in</strong>sensitive to the number<strong>of</strong> active flavours and a piece proportional to (1 − N f /N c ),(R 4 (φ, 1 + , 2 − , 3 − , 4 − ) = R4(φ, h 1 + , 2 − , 3 − , 4 − ) + 1 − N )fR N P4 (φ, 1 + , 2 − , 3 − , 4 − ).N c(4.31)The homogeneous term R h 4(φ, 1 + , 2 − , 3 − , 4 − ) can be simply calcul<strong>at</strong>ed us<strong>in</strong>g theBCFW recursion rel<strong>at</strong>ions [140,141],R h 4(φ, 1 + , 2 − , 3 − , 4 − ) = 2A (0) (φ, 1 + , 2 − , 3 − , 4 − ). (4.32)This contribution cancels aga<strong>in</strong>st a similar homogeneous term for the φ † amplitudewhen comb<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g the φ and φ † amplitudes to form the <strong>Higgs</strong> amplitude.The N P piece allows the propag<strong>at</strong>ion <strong>of</strong> quarks <strong>in</strong> the loop, and can be completelyreconstructed by consider<strong>in</strong>g only the fermion loop contribution. Furthermore, onecan extract the φ contribution to R N P4 by consider<strong>in</strong>g the full <strong>Higgs</strong> amplitude and remov<strong>in</strong>gthe fully r<strong>at</strong>ional φ † contribution calcul<strong>at</strong>ed <strong>in</strong> [106]. S<strong>in</strong>ce there is no directHqq coupl<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> the effective theory, the most complic<strong>at</strong>ed structure is a secondranktensor box configur<strong>at</strong>ion. Of the 739 diagrams contribut<strong>in</strong>g to the Hggggamplitude 1 , only 136 conta<strong>in</strong> fermion loops and are straightforward to evalu<strong>at</strong>e.After subtract<strong>in</strong>g the cut-completion and homogeneous r<strong>at</strong>ional terms from theexplicit Feynman diagram calcul<strong>at</strong>ion the follow<strong>in</strong>g r<strong>at</strong>ional pieces rema<strong>in</strong>.{ (R N P14 (H, 1 + , 2 − , 3 − , 4 − 〈23〉〈34〉〈4|pH |1][31]) =− 〈3|p H|1] 22 3s 123 〈12〉[21][32] s 124 [42] 2+ 〈24〉〈34〉〈3|p H|1][41]− [12]2 〈23〉 2− 〈24〉(s 23s 24 + s 23 s 34 + s 24 s 34 )3s 124 s 12 [42] s 14 [42] 2 3〈12〉〈14〉[23][34][42]+ 〈2|p H|1]〈4|p H |1]3s 234 [23][34]− 2[12]〈23〉[31]23[23] 2 [41][34])}+{(2 ↔ 4)}. (4.33)The last l<strong>in</strong>e <strong>in</strong> the above equ<strong>at</strong>ion is the one-loop r<strong>at</strong>ional expression for the φ †contribution [106]. We can thus def<strong>in</strong>e the r<strong>at</strong>ional terms for the φ contribution.{ (R N P14 (φ, 1 + , 2 − , 3 − , 4 − 〈23〉〈34〉〈4|pH |1][31]) =− 〈3|p H|1] 22 3s 123 〈12〉[21][32] s 124 [42] 21 Feynman diagrams were gener<strong>at</strong>ed <strong>with</strong> the aid <strong>of</strong> QGRAF [207].

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