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We review on the calculation of the heavy-quark photo-production vector form factors, with the full dependence on the mass of the heavy-quark. The Feynman diagrams are evaluated within the dimensional regularization scheme and expressed in…
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In this paper we consider mixed two-loop electroweak corrections to the top quark propagator in the Standard Model. In particular, we compute the on-shell renormalization constant for the mass and wave function, which constitute building…
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I discuss recent progress in the calculation of two-loop QCD corrections in the eikonal approximation. I present specific results for the UV structure of the corrections.
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I present generalized formulas for approximate corrections to QCD hard-scattering cross sections through second order in the perturbative expansion. The approximate results are based on recent two-loop calculations for soft and collinear…
During the last year, analytic expressions for the two-loop QCD corrections to the form factors for the vector, axial-vector, scalar and pseudo-scalar vertices involving a pair of heavy quarks, $Q \bar{Q}$, were calculated. The results are…
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The one-loop NLO radiative corrections to the observables in polarized DIS using assumption that a quark is an essential massive particle are considered. If compared with classical QCD formulae the obtained results are identical for the…
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We calculate the two--loop electroweak corrections to the fermionic decay width of the Higgs boson at leading order in $m_{H}$. The sum of one--loop and two--loop radiative corrections turns out to be at 6% level over the whole range of…
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In the supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model we derive the two-loop QCD corrections to the scalar quark contributions to the electroweak precision observables entering via the rho parameter. A very compact expression is derived for…
The asymptotic structure of the QCD perturbative relation between the on-shell and $\overline{\rm{MS}}$ heavy quark masses is studied. We estimate the five and six-loop contributions to this relation by three different techniques. First,…
We calculate the full set of the two-loop master integrals for heavy-to-light form factors of two different massive fermions for arbitrary momentum transfer in NNLO QCD or QED corrections. These integrals allow to determine the two-loop QCD…
We show how both the spectroscopy of heavy-light hadrons and the slope of the Isgur-Wise function can be simultaneously fitted when Heavy Quark Effective Theory is matched onto dynamical quark models, including careful treatment of wigner…
An analytic formula for the two-loop QCD correction of the decay H --> 2 gamma is presented. To evaluate all master integrals a `Risch-like' algorithm was exploited.