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Calculating two- and three-body decays with FeynArts and FormCalc

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

The Feynman diagram generator FeynArts and the computer algebra program FormCalc allow for an automatic computation of 2->2 and 2->3 scattering processes in High Energy Physics. We have extended this package by four new kinematical routines and adapted one existing routine in order to accomodate also two- and three-body decays of massive particles. This makes it possible to compute automatically two- and three-body particle decay widths and decay energy distributions as well as resonant particle production within the Standard Model and the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model at the tree- and loop-level. The use of the program is illustrated with three standard examples: h->b\bar{b}, \mu->e\bar{\nu}_e\nu_\mu, and Z->\nu_e\bar{\nu}_e.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0210426,
  title  = {Calculating two- and three-body decays with FeynArts and FormCalc},
  author = {Michael Klasen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0210426},
  year   = {2009}
}

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8 pages, 1 figure