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We improve the determination of the mass and coupling of the $2^{++}$ tensor di-gluonium by using relativistic QCD Laplace sum rules (LSR). In so doing, we evaluate the next-to-leading order (NLO) corrections to the perturbative (PT) and…
Recently, much work has been devoted to the calculation of order $\alpha$ corrections to the decay rate of pionium, the $\pi^+ \pi^-$ bound state. In previous calculations, nonrelativistic QED corrections were neglected since they start at…
The QED hadronic vacuum polarization function plays an important role in the determination of precision electroweak observables and of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. These contributions have been computed from data, by means of…
We calculate the supersymmetric QCD correction to top-quark production at the Fermilab Tevatron, allowing for arbitrary left-right mixing of the squarks. We find that the correction is significant for several combinations of gluino and…
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At leading power accuracy the QCD light-cone distribution amplitudes (LCDAs) for a heavy meson can be matched onto the LCDAs in the framework of heavy-quark effective theory (HQET) through a factorization formula. We examine the power…
The latest measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment $a^{}_{\mu} \equiv (g^{}_\mu - 2)/2$ at the Fermi Laboratory has found a $4.2\,\sigma$ discrepancy with the theoretical prediction of the Standard Model (SM). Motivated by this…
Two new sum rules were recently discovered by Le Yaouanc et al. by applying the operator product expansion to the nonforward matrix element of a time-ordered product of $b \to c$ currents in the heavy-quark limit of QCD. They lead to the…
We generalize the existing analyses of the parity violating muon polarization asymmetry $\Delta_{LR}$ in $K^+\to\pi^+\mu^+\mu^-$ beyond the leading logarithmic approximation. The inclusion of next--to--leading QCD corrections reduces the…
Motivated by the first LHCb searches for the rare $\bar{B}_{s,d}^{0} \to J/\psi\mu^{+}\mu^{-}$ decays, we perform a detailed study of these processes within the QCD factorization formalism. Since the transverse size of the $J/\psi$ meson is…
We present the attempt to study the problem of the estimates of higher-order perturbative corrections to physical quantities in the Euclidean region. Our considerations are based on the application of the scheme-invariant methods, namely…
Recently the full O(alpha_S^5 m, alpha_S^5 m log(alpha_S)) correction to the heavy quarkonium 1S energy level has been computed (except the a_3-term in the QCD potential). We point out that the full correction (including the…
The QCD coupling alpha_s is determined from a combined analysis of experimental e+e- and e-p jet data confronted to theoretical predictions of the energy evolution of the parton-to-hadron fragmentation functions (FFs) moments…
A continuum approach to Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), based upon Schwinger-Dyson (SD) and Bethe-Salpeter (BS) equations, is employed to provide a tightly constrained prediction for the $\gamma^{*} \gamma^{*} \rightarrow \{ \pi^0, \eta,…
We calculate the magnetic quadrupole moment (MQM) of the deuteron at leading order in the systematic expansion provided by chiral effective field theory. We take into account parity and time-reversal violation which, at the quark-gluon…
By employing the perturbative QCD (pQCD) factorization approach, we calculate the new physics contributions to the four $B \to K \etap$ decays in the Standard Model (SM) with a fourth generation of fermions (SM4), induced by the loop…
Recently, the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab has measured the muon anomalous magnetic dipole moment (MDM), $a_\mu=(g_\mu-2)/2$, which reported that the new experimental average increases the tension between experiment and the standard…
B->gamma e nu transitions have recently been studied in the framework of QCD factorization. The attractiveness of this channel for such an analysis lies in the fact that, at least in the heavy quark limit, the only hadron involved is the B…
We present an update of the measurement of alpha_s(m_tau) from ALEPH tau hadronic spectral functions. We report a study of the perturbative prediction(s) showing that the fixed-order perturbation theory manifests convergence problems not…
Infrared power corrections for the average thrust < T > in e+e- annihilation are analyzed in the framework of renormalon resummation, motivated by analogy with the skeleton expansion in QED and the BLM approach. Performing the ``massive…