Related papers: Two-loop Light Quark Corrections To The Top Width
In this article two-loop QED corrections to the muon decay and corrections of order $\alpha_s^2$ to the semileptonic decay of the bottom quark are considered. We compute the imaginary part of the four-loop diagrams contributing to the…
We present the complete analytical result for the two-loop logarithmically enhanced contributions to the high energy asymptotic behavior of the vector form factor and the four-fermion cross section in a spontaneously broken SU(2) gauge…
The two-loop corrections to the electroweak gauge bosons quartic couplings growing quadratically with the Higgs boson mass are calculated in the Standard Model in the limit of large Higgs mass. The corrections to WWWW, WWZZ and ZZZZ…
We present a technique which permits the calculation of two-point functions of operators containing one heavy quark and an arbitrary number of light quarks as analytic functions of the heavy-quark mass. It is based on the standard Jacobi…
In this talk \footnote{Presented at ICHEP'98, Vancouver, CA, July 1998}, we present a recently suggested way on how to analytically incorporate massive threshold effects into observables calculated in massless QCD. No matching is required…
The complete two-loop electroweak fermionic corrections to the effective leptonic weak mixing angle, sin^2(theta_eff), are now available. Here we shortly present the methods applied and illustrate the implications on indirect prediction for…
We compute the one-loop correction to the forward matrix element of an off-light-cone bi-local quark correlator characterised by a space-like separation $z^2$ in the presence of heavy quarks with mass $m$. This calculation allows us to…
We present a full one-loop calculation of the electroweak corrections to the partial decay widths of the fermionic modes of sfermions \Gamma(\sfermion \to f'\chi). The main technical points of the renormalization are presented, and the main…
I review the cancellation of non-perturbative 1/m_Q corrections to the heavy quark inclusive decay width. I summarize the results of an explicit second loop order calculation in perturbation theory which shows the absence of linear…
We present exact results, at next-to-leading order in renormalization-group improved perturbation theory, for the Wilson coefficients appearing at order 1/m_Q in the heavy-quark expansion of heavy-light current operators. To this end, we…
We compute the two-loop heavy quark jet-function in the heavy quark limit. This is one of the key ingredients in next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) and next-to-next-to-leading-log order (NNLL) computations of the invariant mass…
Masses of heavy Standard Model fermions (top-quark, bottom-quark, and tau-lepton) play an important role in the analysis of theories beyond the SM. They serve as low-energy input and reduce the parameter space of such theories. In this…
We compute the two-loop corrections to the coefficient of the b --> s gamma magnetic penguin present in the limits of heavy top and/or heavy higgs. This kind of corrections affects in a significant way the observables measured at LEP. On…
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…
We present the status of on-going efforts to compute the two-loop virtual corrections to $pp\to t\bar{t} j$ in the leading colour approximation. We review the recent study of the master integrals and their differential equations and present…
We derive the two-loop corrections to Bhabha scattering from heavy fermions using dispersion relations. The double-box contributions are expressed by three kernel functions. Convoluting the perturbative kernels with fermionic threshold…
We calculate the dominant ${\rm O}\left(G_F^2M_H^4\right)$ two-loop electroweak corrections to the fermi\-onic decay widths of a heavy Higgs boson in the Standard Model. Use of the Goldstone-boson equivalence theorem reduces the problem to…
We compute the one-loop anomalous dimension for the light cone distribution function of a heavy quark and solve the corresponding evolution equation analytically. Some implications of the results for inclusive $B$ decays are discussed.
We compute the one-loop supersymmetric QCD quantum effects on the width $\Gamma (t\rightarrow W^{+}\, b)$ of the canonical main decay of the top quark within the framework of the MSSM. The corrections can be of either sign depending on…
Recent results of two-loop contributions to the muon (g-2) in the Standard Model and its supersymmetric extension are presented. In the SM the EW contributions are fixed according to the Higgs boson mass measured at LHC. In the MSSM we…