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Improvement of W Boson Hadronic Decay Width up to $\mathcal{O}\left(\alpha_s^4 \right)$-order

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-12-03 v2

Abstract

The principle of maximum conformality (PMC) is used to remove uncertainties in the renormalization scale and scheme, thus eliminating unnecessary systematic errors for high-precision perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (pQCD) predictions. In this work, we use PMC method to improve the determination of the decay width of the WW boson in hadrons by working on the corrections coming from pQCD theory at the four-loop level. In conventional scale setting, we find that the initial scaling dependence of the renormalization is small only at high correction orders, whereas in single-scale PMC method we obtain a scaling-independent initial result. Finally, the wide hadronic decay of WW is used for an indirect determination of the charm-strange mixing parameter.

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@article{arxiv.2210.01851,
  title  = {Improvement of W Boson Hadronic Decay Width up to $\mathcal{O}\left(\alpha_s^4 \right)$-order},
  author = {Daniel Salinas-Arizmendi and Claudio Dib and Ivan Schmidt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.01851},
  year   = {2024}
}

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17 pages, 5 figures