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We present our calculation of the two-loop corrections of ${\cal O}(\alpha_t^2)$ to the neutral Higgs boson masses of the CP-violating Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model (NMSSM). The calculation is performed in…
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We determine the full mass and $q^2$ dependence of the heavy quark vacuum polarization function $\Pi(q^2)$ and its contribution to the total $e^+e^-$ cross section at ${\cal O}(\alpha_s^2)$ and ${\cal O}(\alpha_s^3)$ in perturbative QCD. We…
The chiral symmetry relation and scaling of the overlap fermions are studied numerically on the quenched lattices at 3 couplings with about the same physical volume. We find that the generalized Gell-Mann-Oakes-Renner relation is satisfied…
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Sum rules for exclusive production of heavy meson pairs in $e^+e^-$ annihilation are used to evaluate the $\Upsilon(4S) \to B \bar B$ and $\psi(3770) \to D \bar D$ decay widths. Infinitely heavy quark limit is discussed, so that scaling law…
We review the present status for the determinations of the light and heavy quark masses, the light quark chiral condensate and the decay constants of light and heavy-light (pseudo)scalar mesons from QCD spectral sum rules (QSSR). Bounds on…
The strange quark mass is determined from a QCD Finite Energy Sum Rule (FESR) optimized to reduce considerably the systematic uncertainties arising from the hadronic resonance sector, as well as from the poor convergence of the pseudoscalar…
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Quark mass corrections to the spin partonic structure function g_1(x,Q^2) and function F_3(x,Q^2) are obtained at the order O(alpha_s) along with the coefficient functions C^{(A)} and C^{(V)} related to the Bjorken and…
We reconsider the determinations of the strange quark mass m_s from e+e- into hadrons data using a new combination of FESR and revisiting the existing tau-like sum rules by including non-resonant contributions to the spectral functions. To…
For top quark decays into heavy quark mesons $\Upsilon$ and $\bar{B}_c^*$ , a complete calculation to the leading order both in QCD coupling constant $\alpha_s$ and in $v$, the typical velocity of the heavy quarks inside the mesons, is…
New data for the total cross section sigma(e^+e^- --> hadrons) in the charm and bottom threshold region are combined with an improved theoretical analysis, which includes recent four-loop calculations, to determine the short distance…
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