Resumen: We revisit a nearly 10-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. Idioma: Inglés DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-08898-z Año: 2021 Publicado en: The European Physical Journal C 81, 2 (2021), 131 [25 pp] ISSN: 1434-6044 Factor impacto JCR: 4.994 (2021) Categ. JCR: PHYSICS, PARTICLES & FIELDS rank: 8 / 29 = 0.276 (2021) - Q2 - T1 Factor impacto CITESCORE: 8.3 - Physics and Astronomy (Q1) - Engineering (Q1)