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Next-to-next-to-leading order calculations for heavy-to-light decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-18 v2

Abstract

We present technical aspects of next-to-next-to-leading order calculations for heavy-to-light decays such as top quark decay, semileptonic b quark decay into a u quark, muon decay, and radiative decays like b -> s gamma. Algebraic reduction of integrals to a set of master integrals is described, methods of determining the master integrals are presented, and a complete list of master integrals is given. As a sample application, the top quark decay width is calculated to O(alpha_s^2) accuracy.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0503039,
  title  = {Next-to-next-to-leading order calculations for heavy-to-light decays},
  author = {I. Blokland and A. Czarnecki and M. Slusarczyk and F. Tkachov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0503039},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

12 pages, corrected typos in the appendix