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Potential-NRQCD offers an effective-theory based approach to heavy-quark physics. While meson Q-anti_Q computations are tractable in pure alpha_s-perturbation theory, more complex many-body quark systems transcend it. A possibility…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-04-15 Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada , Olga I. Pavlova , Richard Williams

In this paper the three-loop polarization functions \Pi(q^2) are calculated for the cases of an external vector, axial-vector, scalar or pseudo-scalar current. Results are presented for the imaginary part which directly leads to the cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 K. G. Chetyrkin , J. H. Kühn , M. Steinhauser

QCD/HQET matching for the heavy-quark field and heavy-light quark currents with three-loop accuracy is discussed.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-13 A. G. Grozin

We compute the NNLO QCD corrections for the hadroproduction of a pair of off-shell photons in the limit of a large number of quark flavors. We perform a reduction of the two-loop amplitude to master integrals and calculate the latter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Charalampos Anastasiou , Julian Cancino , Federico Chavez , Claude Duhr , Achilleas Lazopoulos , Bernhard Mistlberger , Romain Mueller

We consider the $\Lambda N\to NN$ weak transition, responsible for a large fraction of the non-mesonic weak decay of hypernuclei. We follow on the previously derived effective field theory and compute the next-to-leading one-loop…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-04-30 Axel Pérez-Obiol , David R. Entem , Bruno Juliá-Díaz , Assumpta Parreño

Three-loop corrections to the scalar and pseudo-scalar current correlator are calculated. By applying the large momentum expansion mass terms up to order (m^2/q^2)^4 are evaluated analytically. As an application O(\alpha_s^2) corrections to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 R. Harlander , M. Steinhauser

We calculated the complete next-to-leading order(NLO) QCD corrections to the $t\bar t b \bar b$ production process at a $\gamma \gamma$ collider in the standard model(SM). The calculation of the one-loop QCD correction includes the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-04-15 Guo Lei , Ma Wen-Gan , Han Liang , Zhang Ren-You , Jiang Yi

We compute the three-loop corrections to the helicity amplitudes for $q\bar{q}\to Q\bar{Q}$ scattering in massless QCD. In the Lorentz decomposition of the scattering amplitude we avoid evanescent Lorentz structures and map the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-06 Fabrizio Caola , Amlan Chakraborty , Giulio Gambuti , Andreas von Manteuffel , Lorenzo Tancredi

It is shown that up to an over all scale the lowest-order QCD corrections to $t\to H^+b$ and to $t\to W^+b$ are the same in the heavy top limit. Asymptotically, they are given by $-{4\alpha_s\over 3\pi}[{\pi^2\over 3}-{5\over 4}]$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 Jiang Liu , York-Peng Yao

We study the full contributions at the leading order(LO) and QCD next-to-leading order(NLO) to the cross section of the \eewwbb process in the standard model(SM) at the ILC. In dealing the resonance problem we adopted the complex mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Guo Lei , Ma Wen-Gan , Zhang Ren-You , Wang Shao-Ming

We present for the first time the complete three-loop mixed electroweak-QCD ($\mathcal{O}(\alpha\alpha_s)$) corrections for the decay channel $H \to \gamma\gamma$, by implementing three different on-shell $\alpha$ schemes in computing the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-30 Wen-Long Sang , Feng Feng , Yu Jia

We compute the three-loop QCD corrections to the massive quark-anti-quark-photon form factors $F_1$ and $F_2$ in the large-$N_c$ limit. The analytic results are expressed in terms of Goncharov polylogarithms. This allows for a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-08 Johannes Henn , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov , Matthias Steinhauser

We present O(alpha_s^2) corrections to the decay t-->bW in the limit of a very large top quark mass, m_t >> m_W. We find that the O(alpha_s^2) effects decrease the top quark decay width Gamma_t by about 2%: Gamma_t =…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrzej Czarnecki , Kirill Melnikov

The decay width of $Z^0$ to $B_c$ meson is evaluated at the next-to-leading order(NLO) accuracy in strong interaction. Numerical calculation shows that the NLO correction to this process is remarkable. The quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Cong-Feng Qiao , Li-Ping Sun , Rui-Lin Zhu

For the first time the next-to-leading-order electroweak corrections to the full off-shell production of two top quarks that decay leptonically are presented. This calculation includes all off-shell, non-resonant, and interference effects…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-15 Ansgar Denner , Mathieu Pellen

We compute the one-loop QCD amplitudes for the decay of an off-shell vector boson with vector couplings into a quark-antiquark pair accompanied by two gluons keeping, for the first time, all orders in the number of colours. Together with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. M. Campbell , E. W. N. Glover , D. J. Miller

The three-loop non-mixing contributions to the anomalous dimension of the leading order quark pair production current in non-relativistic QCD are computed. It is demonstrated that the renormalization procedure can only be carried out…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. H. Hoang

One of the most challenging open problems in heavy quarkonium physics is the double charm production in $e^+e^-$ annihilation at B factories. The measured cross section of $e^+ e^- \to J/\psi + \eta_c$ is much larger than leading order (LO)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. J. Zhang , Y. J. Gao , K. T. Chao

We present the NNLO QCD virtual corrections for qurak-antiquark -> gluon photon, quark-antiquark -> photon photon and the NNLO QED virtual corrections for electron positron -> photon photon and all processes related by crossing symmetry. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Anastasiou , E. W. N. Glover , M. E. Tejeda-Yeomans

In this paper, we study the next-to-next-to-leading-order (NNLO) QCD corrections for the process $e^+e^- \to J/\psi+J/\psi$ at the $B$ factories. By including the NNLO corrections, the cross section turns negative due to the poor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-13 Xu-Dong Huang , Bin Gong , Rui-Chang Niu , Huai-Min Yu , Jian-Xiong Wang