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Gauge-Independent Bound-State Corrections to the Toponium Decay Width

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

Off-shell and relativistic bound-state corrections for the decay tb+Wt \to b+W are calculated to O(\as2)O(\a_s^2) making full use of the Bethe-Salpeter formalism for weakly bound systems. Thus we are able to take into account all terms to that order in a systematic and straightforward manner. One of the previously not considered contributions cancels precisely gauge dependent terms which appeared in an earlier off-shell calculation. Important cancellations also determine the gauge-independent part.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9408221,
  title  = {Gauge-Independent Bound-State Corrections to the Toponium Decay Width},
  author = {W. Moedritsch and W. Kummer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9408221},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, TUW-94-16