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In perturbation theory the infrared structure of the electroweak interactions produces large corrections proportional to double logarithms log^2 (s/m^2), similar to Sudakov logarithms in QED, when the scale s is much larger than the typical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-09 P. Ciafaloni , D. Comelli

We discuss the lepton-pair production process in Quantum Electrodynamics. We present the ultraviolet-renormalised and infrared-subtracted finite contribution of the second-order virtual corrections to the inclusive lepton-pair production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-26 Tommaso Armadillo , Simone Devoto , Michele Dradi , Alessandro Vicini

We give some details of the recently completed calculation of the full two-loop fermionic corrections to the effective leptonic weak mixing angle. Among others, we describe the C++ library DiaGen/IdSolver, which was used to reduce the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Awramik , M. Czakon , A. Freitas , G. Weiglein

We present a computation of the one-loop QCD corrections to top-quark pair production in association with a $W$ boson, including terms up to order $\varepsilon^2$ in dimensional regularization. Providing a first glimpse into the complexity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-05 Matteo Becchetti , Maximilian Delto , Sara Ditsch , Philipp Alexander Kreer , Mattia Pozzoli , Lorenzo Tancredi

I present the two-loop self-energy functions and pole masses for fermions in an arbitrary renormalizable field theory, in the approximation that vector bosons are treated as massless. The calculations are done simultaneously in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Stephen P. Martin

Two-loop corrections for the form factor in a massive Abelian theory are evaluated, which result from the insertion of massless fermion or scalar loops into the massive gauge boson propagator. The result is valid for arbitrary energies and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-16 B. Feucht , J. H. Kühn , S. Moch

Improved predictions for the Z-boson decay width and the hadronic Z-peak cross-section within the Standard Model are presented, based on a complete calculation of electroweak two-loop corrections with closed fermion loops. Compared to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-24 A. Freitas

Using the asymptotic-expansion technique, we compute the dominant two-loop electroweak corrections, of O(G_F m_t^2), to production and decay via a pair of photons or gluons of the CP-odd Higgs boson A^0 in a two-Higgs-doublet model with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Joachim Brod , Frank Fugel , Bernd A. Kniehl

Double logarithms of $Q^2/m_c^2$ that appear in the cross section for $e^+e^-\to J/\psi + \eta_c$ at next-to-leading order (NLO) in the strong coupling $\alpha_s$ account for the bulk of the NLO correction at $B$-factory energies. (Here,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-10 Geoffrey T. Bodwin , Hee Sok Chung , Jungil Lee

In this work we give a detailed description of a method for the calculation of QCD corrections to electroweak processes in dimensional regularization that does not require any definition of the gamma_5 matrix in d dimensions. This method…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Giancarlo Cella , Giuseppe Curci , Giulia Ricciardi , Andrea Vicere'

The three-loop QCD contributions to the vacuum polarization functions of the $Z$ and $W$ bosons at zero momentum are calculated. The top quark is considered to be massive and the other quarks massless. Using these results, we calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-13 L. Avdeev , J. Fleischer , S. Mikhailov , O. Tarasov

The leading heavy-top two-loop corrections to the \Zbb~vertex are determined from a direct evaluation of the corresponding Feynman diagrams in the large \Mt~limit. %The calculation is done in the naive %dimensional regularization scheme…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 A. Denner , W. Hollik , B. Lampe

We consider QCD radiative corrections to $W^+W^-b {\bar b}$ production with leptonic decays and massive bottom quarks at the LHC. We perform an exact next-to-leading order (NLO) calculation within the $q_T$-subtraction formalism and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-17 Luca Buonocore , Massimiliano Grazzini , Stefan Kallweit , Jonas M. Lindert , Chiara Savoini

In calculating electroweak radiative corrections at two-loop level, one encounters Feynman graphs with several different masses on the internal propagators and on the external legs, which lead to complicated scalar functions. We describe a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Ghinculov , Y. -P. Yao

We compute the eighth-order fermionic corrections involving two and three closed massless fermion loops to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. The required four-loop on-shell integrals are classified and explicit analytical results…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Roman Lee , Peter Marquard , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov , Matthias Steinhauser

We compute the two-loop massless QCD corrections to the helicity amplitudes for the production of two massive vector bosons in quark-antiquark annihilation, allowing for an arbitrary virtuality of the vector bosons: $q \bar q' \to V_1V_2$.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-28 Thomas Gehrmann , Andreas von Manteuffel , Lorenzo Tancredi

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Heinemeyer , G. Weiglein

I attempt to analyse the next-to-leading-order non-holomorphic contribution to the Wilsonian low-energy effective action in the four-dimensional N=2 gauge theories with matter, from the manifestly N=2 supersymmeric point of view, by using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-25 Sergei V. Ketov

For the Run 2 of the LHC next-to-leading order electroweak corrections will play an important role. Even though they are typically moderate at the level of total cross sections they can lead to substantial deviations in the shapes of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-06 Mauro Chiesa , Nicolas Greiner , Francesco Tramontano

Triboson processes allow for a measurement of the triple and quartic couplings of the Standard Model gauge bosons, which can be used to constrain anomalous gauge couplings. In this paper we calculate the next-to-leading order electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-15 Marek Schönherr