Scalar Correlator atO(αs4), Higgs Boson Decay into Bottom Quarks, and Bounds on the Light-Quark Masses

Abstract
We compute, for the first time, the absorptive part of the massless correlator of two quark scalar currents in five loops. As physical applications, we consider the O(αs4) corrections to the decay rate of the standard model Higgs boson into quarks, as well as the constraints on the strange quark mass following from QCD sum rules.