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Heavy-to-heavy quark decays at NNLO

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-12-30 v1

Abstract

Details of a recent calculation of O(alpha_s^2) corrections to the decay b -> c,l,nu_l, taking into account the c-quark mass, are described. Construction of the expansion in the mass ratio m_c/m_b as well as the evaluation of new four-loop master integrals are presented. The same techniques are applicable to the muon decay, mu -> e,nu_mu,anti-nu_e. Analytical results are presented, for the physical cases as well as for a model with purely-vector couplings.

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@article{arxiv.0808.3509,
  title  = {Heavy-to-heavy quark decays at NNLO},
  author = {Alexey Pak and Andrzej Czarnecki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.3509},
  year   = {2008}
}

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11 pages

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