Diphoton decay of the higgs from the Epstein--Glaser viewpoint

We revisit a nearly ten-year old controversy on the diphoton decay of the Higgs particle. To a large extent, the controversy turned around the respective merits of the regularization techniques employed. The novel aspect of our approach is that no regularization techniques are brought to bear: we work within the Bogoliubov–Epstein–Glaser scheme of renormalization by extension of distributions. Solving the problem actually required an expansion of this method’s toolkit, furnished in the paper.