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The two-loop O(g^4 mt^2/mw^2) corrections are incorporated in the theoretical calculation of MW, sin^2 theta_MSbar(MZ), and sin^2 theta_eff, as functions of MH. The analysis is carried out in a previously proposed MSbar formulation and two…
We present the evaluation of the two-loop O(g^4 mt^2) effects in the partial widths of the Z boson in the MSbar scheme and in two different implementations of the on-shell scheme. We observe a clear reduction of the scheme dependence of the…
The relationship between MS and pole masses of the vector bosons Z and W is calculated at the two-loop level in the Standard Model. We only consider the purely bosonic contributions which represents a gauge invariant subclass of diagrams.…
The leading electroweak MSSM two-loop corrections to the $\rho$-parameter are calculated. They are obtained by evaluating the two-loop self-energies of the Z and the W boson at O(Gf^2 m_t^4) in the limit of heavy scalar quarks. A very…
The corrections induced by a heavy top on the main precision observables are now available up to O(alpha^2 mt^2/mw^2). The new results imply a significant reduction of the theoretical uncertainty and can have a sizable impact on the…
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…
The electroweak corrections induced by a heavy top on the main precision observables are now available up to O(g^4 mt^2/mw^2). The new results significantly reduce the theoretical uncertainty and have a sizable impact on the determination…
We compute the two-loop QCD corrections to the neutral Higgs-boson masses in the MSSM, including the effect of non-vanishing external momenta in the self-energies. We obtain corrections of O(alpha_t*alpha_s) and O(alpha*alpha_s), i.e., all…
The evaluation of the two-loop MSSM-contributions to the electroweak precision observables M_W and s_w^eff at order(alpha_t^2), order(alpha_t alpha_b), order(alpha_b^2) is presented. These contributions enter via Delta(rho), and it is…
Recent progress on the (g-2)_\mu prediction is presented. In the SM, the Higgs-boson mass dependent contributions have been evaluated exactly up to the two-loop level and consistently combined with leading three-loop effects. Thus, the…
The two-loop electroweak bosonic correction to the muon lifetime and the M_W-M_Z interdependece is computed using analytical methods of asymptotic expansion. Combined with previous calculations this copmletes the full two-loop correction to…
The $O(\alpha m_t^2/m_w^2)$ and $O(\alpha \alpha_s m_t^2/m_w^2)$ corrections to the partial decay width $\Gamma(Z \rightarrow b + \bar{b})$ are computed using the current algebra formulation of radiative corrections. This framework allows…
We present a computation of the O(at*as + at^2) two--loop corrections to the MSSM Higgs masses. An appropriate use of the effective potential approach allows us to obtain simple analytical formulae, valid for arbitrary values of mA and of…
The paper is devoted to the calculation of the two-loop O(alpha_s y^2) and O(y^4) MSSM corrections to the relation between the pole mass of the b-quark and its running mass in DR scheme. To evaluate the needed diagrams the large mass…
Results are presented for the momentum dependent two-loop contributions of O(alpha_t alpha_s) to the masses and mixing effects in the Higgs sector of the MSSM. They are obtained in the Feynman-diagrammatic approach using a mixed…
We compute the exact two-loop matching coefficients for the strong coupling constant alpha_s and the bottom-quark mass m_b within the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM), taking into account O(alpha_s^2) contributions from…
By means of a heavy-top-quark effective Lagrangian, we calculate the three-loop corrections of O(alpha_s^2 G_F M_t^2) to the H->bb-bar partial decay width of the standard-model Higgs boson with intermediate mass M_H<<2M_t. We take advantage…
The momentum dependent two-loop contributions of the order $\mathcal{O}$($\alpha_s \alpha_t$) to the masses in the Higgs-boson sector of the MSSM are computed. Adopting the Feynman-diagrammatic approach and using a mixed…
When relating the strong coupling $\alpha_s$, measured at the scale of the $Z$ boson mass, to its numerical value at some higher energy, for example the scale of Grand Unification, it is important to include higher order corrections both in…
We present the currently most precise predictions for the $W$-boson mass and the leptonic effective mixing angle $\sin^2\theta_{\text{eff}}$ in the aligned Two-Higgs-Doublet Model. The evaluation includes the full one-loop result, all known…