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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…
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In a previous work we have shown that a general two-Higgs-doublet model (THDM) with a very light CP-odd scalar can be compatible with electroweak precision data, such as the rho parameter, BR(b --> s gamma), R_b, A_b, BR(Upsilon --> A…
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