Related papers: Higher radiative corrections in HQET

QED radiative corrections to elastic electron-proton scattering at low energies are discussed. Corrections to the electron line and effects due to vacuum polarization are computed. Higher order effects are estimated for the conditions of…

We present three-loop (NNNLO) corrections to the heavy-to-heavy quark transitions in the limit of equal initial and final quark masses. In analogy with the previously found NNLO corrections, the bulk of the result is due to the beta_0^2…

Fully relativistic approach to evaluate the correlation effects in highly charged ions is presented. The interelectronic-interaction contributions of first and second orders in $1/Z$ are treated rigorously within the framework of…

We compare our previously proposed hard-thermal-loop (HTL) resummed calculation of quark number susceptibilities using a self-consistent two-loop approximation to the quark density with a recent calculation of the same quantity at the…

We report a calculation of all two-loop QED corrections with closed fermion loops for the n=1 and n=2 states of H-like ions and for a wide range of the nuclear charge numbers Z=1-100. The calculation is performed to all orders in the…

With the increasing experimental precision available at colliders, higher-order perturbative calculations are required to reduce the theory uncertainty in order to extract crucial QCD parameters, such as the strong coupling constant, to the…

We give a complete analytical computation of three and two-point loop integrals occurring in heavy-particle theories, involving a velocity change, for arbitrary real values of the external masses and residual momenta.

We present a determination of a new class of Feynman diagrams relevant for second-order QCD corrections to the top quark decay t -> b W. Modern computing techniques allow us to perform a reduction of the original loop integrals to master…

The lectures are a practical introduction to perturbative calculations in QED and QCD. I discuss methods of calculation of one- and two-loop diagrams in dimensional regularization, MSbar and on-shell renormalization schemes, decoupling of…

Accurate ab initio calculations of the energy levels of the superheavy elements Z=112 are presented. Relativistic Hartree-Fock and configuration interaction methods are combined with the many-body perturbation theory to construct the…

A new approach is introduced to study QCD amplitudes at high energy and comparatively small momentum transfer. Novel cut diagrams, representing resummation of Feynman diagrams, are used to simplify calculation and to avoid delicate…

We calculate the O(alpha_s^3 ln(alpha_s)) contributions to the heavy-quarkonium production and annihilation rates. Our result sheds new light on the structure of the high-order perturbative corrections and opens a new perspective for a…

I calculate heavy-light decay constants in a nonrelativistic potential model. The resulting estimate of heavy quark symmetry breaking conflicts with similar estimates from lattice QCD. I show that a semirelativistic potential model…

Nuclear recoil corrections of order $\alpha^6\,m^2/M$ are calculated for the lowest-lying triplet states of the helium atom. It improves the theoretical prediction for the isotope shift of the $2^3S-2^3P$ transition energy and influences…

The application of the tensor formalism of the heavy quark effective theory (HQET) at leading order to strong decays of heavy hadrons is presented. Comparisons between experimental and theoretical predictions of ratios of decay rates for B…

We compute the leading order (in alpha_s) perturbative QCD and power (1/m_b^2) corrections to the hadronic invariant mass and hadron energy spectra in the decay B \to X_s \ell^+ \ell^- in standard model using the heavy quark expansion…

We compute the radiative quantum corrections to the critical exponents and amplitude ratios for O($N$) $\lambda\phi^{4}$ scalar high energy nonextensive $q$-field theories. We employ the field theoretic renormalization group approach…

We report on a non-perturbative determination of the parameters of the lattice Heavy Quark Effective Theory (HQET) Lagrangian and of the time component of the heavy-light axial-vector current with Nf=2 flavors of massless dynamical quarks.…

We compute one-loop QCD corrections to the triple differential width of the inclusive decay $\bar{B} \to X_c \ell \bar{\nu}_\ell$ including contributions from all relevant dimension-six operators in the Weak Effective Theory (WET), at…

Using computer-algebraic methods we derive compact analytical expressions for the virtual electroweak radiative corrections to polarized Compton scattering. Moreover the helicity amplitudes for double Compton scattering, which prove to be…