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We present the calculation of QCD radiative corrections to heavy-quark production at NNLO. The calculation is implemented in an updated version of \textsc{Matrix}, which allows us to obtain multidifferential predictions for stable top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-20 Simone Devoto

We calculate the next-to-leading order(NLO) quantum chromodynamics(QCD) corrections to the inclusive process of $Z_0 \rightarrow B^*_c+\bar{c}+b$ under the non-relativistic QCD(NRQCD) factorization scheme. Technical details about…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-05 Jun Jiang , Long-Bin Chen , Cong-Feng Qiao

We calculate the thermodynamic functions of a quark-gluon plasma for general N_c and N_f to three-loop order using hard-thermal-loop perturbation theory. At this order, all the ultraviolet divergences can be absorbed into renormalizations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-07 Jens O. Andersen , Lars E. Leganger , Michael Strickland , Nan Su

We present a next-to-leading-order (NLO) analysis of the rare radiative decay $\eta_b \to J/\psi\gamma$, a flavor-changing transition between bottomonium and charmonium, within the framework of non-relativistic QCD (NRQCD). We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-17 Hao Yang , Lin Zuo , Bingwei Long

We compute the $\alpha_s^2 n_f$ perturbative QCD contribution to semileptonic B decay, including the finite mass of the charm quark. This result provides an estimate of the size of the two-loop correction, which is found to be about 50\% of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-25 Michael Luke , Martin J. Savage , Mark B. Wise

We calculate the next-to-next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the leptonic invariant mass ($q^2$) spectrum of semileptonic $b \to c$ inclusive decays, taking into account the mass of the charm quark and the charged lepton in the final…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-08 Matteo Fael , Florian Herren

We present analytic results for three-loop fermionic corrections to the heavy-light form factors in perturbative quantum chromodynamics. Specifically, we present all light quark contributions and contributions from two heavy quark loops. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-23 Sudeepan Datta , Narayan Rana

We compute next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the $1/m_b^2$ terms of the Heavy Quark Expansion for the contribution to inclusive nonleptonic bottom hadron decays induced by the charged-current operators mediating the transitions $b…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-25 Thomas Mannel , Daniel Moreno , Alexei A. Pivovarov

The four-loop QCD corrections to the electroweak $\rho$-parameter arising from top and bottom quark loops are computed. Specifically we evaluate the missing ``non-singlet'' piece. Using algebraic methods the amplitude is reduced to a set of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 K. G. Chetyrkin , M. Faisst , J. H. Kühn , P. Maierhoefer , C. Sturm

We present the two-loop master integrals relevant to the ${\mathcal O}(\alpha \alpha_s)$-corrections to the decay $H \rightarrow b \bar{b}$ through a $H t \bar{t}$-coupling. We keep the full dependence on the heavy particle masses, but…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-26 Ekta Chaubey , Stefan Weinzierl

We summarize recent results on QCD corrections to various observables in semileptonic $b$ quark decays. For massless leptons in the final state we present effects of such corrections on triple differential distribution of leptons which are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-01 Andrzej Czarnecki , Marek Jezabek

The three-loop corrections to the potential of two heavy quarks are computed. Analytic results for the most complicated master integrals are presented.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-18 Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov , Matthias Steinhauser

The decay of B mesons can be predicted within the Heavy Quark Expansion as the decay of a free bottom quark plus corrections which are suppressed by powers of $1/m_b$. This contribution to Loops&Legs 2024 describes the calculation of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-02 Manuel Egner

We compute theoretical predictions for the production of a W-boson in association with a bottom-quark pair at hadron colliders at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD, including the leptonic decay of the W-boson, while treating the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-17 Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Rene Poncelet , Andrei Popescu , Simone Zoia

We present analytical results for higher order corrections to the decay spectra of inclusive semileptonic heavy hadron weak decays using the heavy quark expansion (HQE). We compute analytically the spectrum of the leptonic invariant mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-13 Th. Mannel , D. Moreno , A. A. Pivovarov

Within the framework of Non-Relativistic Quantum Chromodynamics (NRQCD) factorization, we calculate the next-to-leading order (NLO) perturbative QCD corrections to the form factors for the semileptonic decays of $B_c^*$ into $J/\psi$ via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-28 Qin Chang , Wei Tao , Zhen-Jun Xiao , Ruilin Zhu

We present the three-loop QCD corrections to the quark chromomagnetic moment including two different nonzero masses. This is a necessary ingredient to obtain the corresponding corrections to the chromomagnetic coefficient in the Heavy Quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-02 S. Bekavac , A. Grozin , D. Seidel , M. Steinhauser

We calculate the one-loop QCD corrections to $t\rightarrow \tilde t_1 \tilde \chi^0_j$ using dimensional reduction scheme, including QCD and supersymmetric QCD corrections. The analytic expressions for the corrections to the decay width are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Chong Sheng Li , Robert J. Oakes , Jin Min Yang

We compute three-loop corrections to the singlet form factors for massive quarks using a semi-analytic method which provides precise results over the whole kinematic range. Particular emphasis is put on the anomaly contribution originating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-24 Matteo Fael , Fabian Lange , Kay Schönwald , Matthias Steinhauser

We present partial results on NLO and NNLO QCD, and NLO electroweak corrections to polarized top quark decays. In parallel we derive positivity bounds for the polarized structure functions in polarized top quark decays and check them…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-05 Stefan Groote , Jürgen G. Körner