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Two-Loop Anomalous Dimensions in the LEFT: Dimension-Six Four-Fermion Operators in NDR

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-05-08 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We derive the complete set of two-loop anomalous dimensions describing the mixing of four-fermion operators in the Low Energy Effective Field Theory (LEFT). The calculation is performed in Naive Dimensional Regularization with anticommuting γ5\gamma_5 (the NDR scheme), and the results are given in the "JMS basis" of dimension-six operators. The derivation relies on known results for UV poles in two-loop diagrams in QCD, which are then used to derive the two-loop Anomalous Dimension Matrix (ADM) for the full set of four-fermion operators including O(αs2)O(\alpha_s^2), O(αsα)O(\alpha_s\alpha) and O(α2)O(\alpha^2) corrections. The method employed is an extension of a common approach to deal with traces containing γ5\gamma_5 in NDR. Our results have been implemented in the public code DsixTools. We also discuss and provide the results in the LEFT with 5, 4 and 3 active quark flavors.

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@article{arxiv.2501.08384,
  title  = {Two-Loop Anomalous Dimensions in the LEFT: Dimension-Six Four-Fermion Operators in NDR},
  author = {Jason Aebischer and Pol Morell and Marko Pesut and Javier Virto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.08384},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

60 pages, 6 figures. Large appendix with results as ancillary. v2: Extended discussion and corrected typos