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Multi-loop integrals can be evaluated numerically using Mellin-Barnes representations. Here this technique is applied to the calculation of electroweak two-loop correction with closed fermion loops for two observables: the effective weak…

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We present the first calculation of the two-loop electroweak fermionic correction to the flavour-dependent effective weak-mixing angle for bottom quarks, sin^2 theta_{eff}^{b anti-b}. For the evaluation of the missing two-loop vertex…

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We analytically compute all four-loop QCD corrections to the photon-quark and Higgs-gluon form factors involving a closed massless fermion loop. Our calculation of non-planar vertex integrals confirms a previous conjecture for the…

I find the three-loop corrections at leading order in QCD to the physical masses of the Higgs, W, and Z bosons in the Standard Model. The results are obtained as functions of the $\overline{\rm{MS}}$ Lagrangian parameters only, using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-17 Stephen P. Martin

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

In this talk we discuss an algorithm for the numerical calculation of one-loop QCD amplitudes and present results at next-to-leading order for jet observables in electron-positron annihilation calculated with the above-mentioned method. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-12-16 S. Becker , D. Goetz , C. Reuschle , C. Schwan , S. Weinzierl

The ultimate goal of quantum error correction is to create logical qubits with very low error rates (e.g. 1e-12) and assemble them into large-scale quantum computers capable of performing many (e.g. billions) of logical gates on many (e.g.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Michael E. Beverland , Malcolm Carroll , Andrew W. Cross , Theodore J. Yoder

We present the result for the one-loop squared virtual QCD corrections to the W boson pair production in the quark-anti-quark-annihilation channel in the limit where all kinematical invariants are large compared to the mass of the W boson.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-06-19 G. Chachamis , M. Czakon , D. Eiras

A review of the calculation of the leading three-loop electroweak corrections to the rho-parameter, sin^2 theta_eff and the W-boson mass is presented. The heavy Higgs mass expansion and the renormalization are discussed.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Boughezal , B. Tausk

We compute the two-loop QCD corrections to the heavy quark form factors in case of the vector, axial-vector, scalar and pseudo-scalar currents up to second order in the dimensional parameter $\epsilon = (4-D)/2$. These terms are required in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-30 J. Ablinger , A. Behring , J. Blümlein , G. Falcioni , A. De Freitas , P. Marquard , N. Rana , C. Schneider

We compute analytically the complete electroweak two-loop corrections to the $B^0-{\bar B}^0$ mixing. These corrections fix the normalization of the electroweak coupling employed in the extraction of $|V_{td}|$ and reduce the theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Gambino , A. Kwiatkowski , N. Pott

We calculate the anomalous dimension of the $|\Delta S| = 1$ current-current operators of the weak effective Lagrangian at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (NNNLO) in QCD. This constitutes the first step towards a full four-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-21 Joachim Brod , Emmanuel Stamou , Tom Steudtner

In this study, we conduct an enhanced investigation of pure annihilation-type charmless hadronic B-decays within the framework of the PQCD approach. Specifically, we account for the quark-loop enhanced contribution to various decay…

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The vacuum polarization functions $\Pi(q^2)$ of charged and neutral gauge bosons which arise from top and bottom quark loops lead to important shifts in relations between electroweak parameters which can be measured with ever-increasing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 K. G. Chetyrkin , J. H. Kuehn , M. Steinhauser

We report on a recent calculation of the two-loop virtual QCD corrections to the W boson pair production in the quark-anti-quark-annihilation channel in the limit where all kinematical invariants are large compared to the mass of the W…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-30 Grigorios Chachamis

A precise theoretical description of W- and Z-boson production in the resonance region is essential for the correct interpretation of high-precision measurements of the W-boson mass and the effective weak mixing angle. Currently, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-17 Stefan Dittmaier , Alexander Huss , Christian Schwinn

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

We compute the next to leading QCD corrections to weak four fermion interactions introducing a scheme that does not require an explicit definition of $\gamma_5$ in $d$ dimensions. This scheme reduces greatly the difficulties in calculating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-01 G. Curci , G. Ricciardi

We present the full ${{\cal O}}(\alpha)$ electroweak radiative corrections to associated Higgs top pair production in $e^+e^-$ collisions. We combine these results with a new calculation of the full one-loop QCD corrections. The computation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Belanger , F. Boudjema , J. Fujimoto , T. Ishikawa , T. Kaneko , K. Kato , Y. Shimizu , Y. Yasui

We present the calculation of the NLO QCD corrections to the electroweak production of top-antitop pairs at the CERN LHC in the presence of a new neutral gauge boson. The corrections are implemented in the parton shower Monte Carlo program…

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