  We consider a scalar field, such as the Higgs boson H, coupled to gluons via
the effective operator H tr G_{mu nu} G^{mu nu} induced by a heavy-quark loop.
We treat H as the real part of a complex field phi which couples to the
self-dual part of the gluon field-strength, via the operator phi tr G_{SD mu
nu} G_{SD}^{mu nu}, whereas the conjugate field phi^dagger couples to the
anti-self-dual part. There are three infinite sequences of amplitudes coupling
phi to quarks and gluons that vanish at tree level, and hence are finite at one
loop, in the QCD coupling. Using on-shell recursion relations, we find compact
expressions for these three sequences of amplitudes and discuss their analytic
properties.
