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Top-Quark Decay at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order in QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-05-30 v3

Abstract

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 WW boson width effects. In particular, we also show the first results of the fully differential decay rates for top-quark semileptonic decay tW+(l+ν)bt\to W^+(l^+\nu)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.

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@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