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The decay of the Standard Model Higgs boson into four leptons via a virtual W-boson or Z-boson pair is one of the most important decay modes in the Higgs-boson search at the LHC. We present the complete electroweak radiative corrections of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Bredenstein , A. Denner , S. Dittmaier , M. M. Weber

For the Run 2 of the LHC next-to-leading order electroweak corrections will play an important role. Even though they are typically moderate at the level of total cross sections they can lead to substantial deviations in the shapes of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-06 Mauro Chiesa , Nicolas Greiner , Francesco Tramontano

In processes at the energy much higher than electroweak scale, weak boson mass act as the infrared cutoff in weak boson loops and resulting Sudakov log corrections can be as large as 10%. Since electroweak theory is off-diagonally broken…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Hiroyuki Kawamura

We calculate the electroweak and QCD corrections to W-W+ -> tt and ZZ -> tt. We also consider the interplay of these corrections with the effect of anomalous interactions that affect the massive weak bosons and the top. The results at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Bouayed , F. Boudjema

We discuss two-loop leading and angular-dependent next-to-leading logarithmic electroweak virtual corrections to arbitrary processes at energies above the electroweak scale. The relevant Feynman diagrams involving soft-collinear gauge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ansgar Denner , Michael Melles , Stefano Pozzorini

We present results of the first calculation of next-to-leading-order electroweak corrections to W-boson pair production at the LHC that fully takes into account leptonic W-boson decays and off-shell effects. Employing realistic event…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-29 Benedikt Biedermann , Marina Billoni , Ansgar Denner , Stefan Dittmaier , Lars Hofer , Barbara Jager , Lukas Salfelder

In most of the mass range encompassed by the limits from the direct search and the electroweak precision tests, the Higgs boson of the standard model preferably decays to bottom quarks. We present, in analytic form, the dominant two-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Mathias Butenschoen , Frank Fugel , Bernd A. Kniehl

We present the next-to-leading-order calculation of the partial decay widths of light CP-even Higgs bosons decaying into four fermions in the Two-Higgs-Doublet Model and a Singlet Extension of the Standard Model. Different renormalization…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-17 Lukas Altenkamp , Michele Boggia , Stefan Dittmaier , Heidi Rzehak

The high accuracy envisaged for future measurements of W-boson production at hadron colliders has to be matched by precise theoretical predictions. We study the impact of electroweak radiative corrections on W-boson production cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Silja Brensing , Stefan Dittmaier , Michael Krämer , Alexander Mück

To match the precision of present and future measurements of Z-boson production at hadron colliders, electroweak radiative corrections must be included in the theory predictions. In this paper we consider their effect on the transverse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 J. H. Kuhn , A. Kulesza , S. Pozzorini , M. Schulze

The two-loop electroweak corrections to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, generated by fermionic loops, are calculated. An interesting role of the top quark in the anomaly cancellation is observed. New corrections, including terms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-15 Andrzej Czarnecki , Bernd Krause , William J. Marciano

Recent tests of the electroweak Standard Model are reviewed, covering the precise measurements of Z decays at LEP I and SLC and measurements of fermion pair production at higher energies at LEP II. Special emphasis is given to new results…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 David Ward

We calculate the electroweak and finite width corrections to the decay of an unpolarized top quark into a bottom quark and a $ W $-gauge boson where the helicities of the $ W $ are specified as longitudinal, transverse-plus and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-23 H. S. Do , S. Groote , J. G. Körner , M. C. Mauser

The recently completed calculation of the full electroweak O(alpha) corrections to the charged-current four-fermion production processes e+e- --> nu_tau tau+ mu- anti-nu_mu, u anti-d mu- anti-nu_mu, and u anti-d s anti-c is briefly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Denner , S. Dittmaier , M. Roth , L. H. Wieders

The most recent results for W and Z boson production cross sections and asymmetries are presented from the CDF and D0 collaborations using Run II data taken at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboritory (FNAL) Tevatron. Data set sizes range…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Bellavance

Recently exact results for the complete electroweak two-loop contributions to the effective weak mixing angle were published. This paper illustrates the techniques used for this computation, in particular the methods for evaluating the loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Awramik , M. Czakon , A. Freitas

We present electroweak physics results from the D0 and CDF experiments using data from p \bar p collisions at \sqrt s = 1.8 TeV. Measurements of the cross sections times branching ratios for W and Z production, the inclusive width of the W…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 John Ellison

The leading electroweak MSSM two-loop corrections to the electroweak precision observables are calculated. They are obtained by evaluating the two-loop O(\alpha_t^2), O(\alpha_t \alpha_b), O(\alpha_b^2) contributions to the quantity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Heinemeyer , G. Weiglein

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…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. A. Yerokhin , P. Indelicato , V. M. Shabaev

Full O(alpha) electroweak corrections for gamma-gamma-> W+W- are calculated including virtual corrections, soft and hard real photon and Z-boson emission. The corrections are quite large ranging from -2.5% at 500 GeV to -18% at 2 TeV,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Jikia