We present the complete calculation of the top-quark decay width at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD, including next-to-leading electroweak corrections as well as finite bottom quark mass and W boson width effects. In particular, we also show the first results of the fully differential decay rates for top-quark semileptonic decay t→W+(l+ν)b at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD. Our method is based on the understanding of the invariant mass distribution of the final-state jet in the singular limit from effective field theory. Our result can be used to study arbitrary infrared-safe observables of top-quark decay with the highest perturbative accuracy.
@article{arxiv.1210.2808,
title = {Top-Quark Decay at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order in QCD},
author = {Jun Gao and Chong Sheng Li and Hua Xing Zhu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.2808},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
5 pages, 6 figures; version accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters