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MS Versus Pole Masses of Gauge Bosons II: Two-Loop Electroweak Fermion Corrections

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

We have calculated the fermion contributions to the shift of the position of the poles of the massive gauge boson propagators at two-loop order in the Standard Model. Together with the bosonic contributions calculated previously the full two-loop corrections are available. This allows us to investigate the full correction in the relationship between MS and pole masses of the vector bosons Z and W. Two-loop renormalization and the corresponding renormalization group equations are discussed. Analytical results for the master-integrals appearing in the massless fermion contributions are given. A new approach of summing multiple binomial sums has been developed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0212319,
  title  = {MS Versus Pole Masses of Gauge Bosons II: Two-Loop Electroweak Fermion Corrections},
  author = {F. Jegerlehner and M. Yu. Kalmykov and O. Veretin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0212319},
  year   = {2009}
}

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62 pages, LaTeX, 18 eps-figures, version to appear in Nucl.Phys.B