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Perturbative relations between pole and running heavy quark masses, defined in the Minkowski regions, are considered. Special attention is paid to the appearance of the kinematic $\pi^2$-effects, which exist in the coefficients of these…
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 accuracy of the conventional treatment of quark mass thresholds in the QCD running coupling constant $\alpha_s$, based on the step approximation to the $\beta$--function, is investigated. The errors of extrapolating $\ase(\mu)$ from low…
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 prove that Borel QCD sum rules for heavy-light currents yield very strong correlations between the $b$-quark mass $m_b$ and the $B$-meson decay constant $f_B$, namely, $\delta f_B/f_B\approx -8\,\delta m_b/m_b$. This fact opens the…
This talks contains a short introduction to Chiral Perturbation Theory and the existing calculations to two-loop order in the mesonic sector. I include a discussion on which quantities the expansion can be organized in. The present best…
I discuss a few selected topics related to the reconstruction of the mass of the top quark at hadron colliders. In particular, the relation between the measured top mass and theoretical definitions, such as the pole or MSbar mass, is…
In this paper we compute the relation between heavy quark masses defined in the modified minimal subtraction and on-shell scheme. Detailed results are presented for all coefficients of the SU$(N_c)$ colour factors. The reduction of the…
We calculate the top-quark-induced three-loop corrections of O(alpha_s^2 G_F M_t^2) to the Yukawa couplings of the first five quark flavours in the framework of the minimal standard model with an intermediate-mass Higgs boson, with mass M_H…
Bound states of heavy $\bar{q}q$ quarks are reviewed within the context of QCD, paying attention to what can be derived from the theory with a reasonable degree of rigour. This is compared with the results of semiclassical arguments. Among…
The off-shell two-loop correction to the massive quark propagator in an arbitrary covariant gauge is calculated and results for the bare and renormalized propagator are presented. The calculations were performed by means of a set of new…
Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) effects in the semileptonic decay b -> c l nu are evaluated to the second order in the coupling constant, O(alpha_s^2), and to several orders in the expansion in quark masses, m_c/m_b. Corrections are calculated…
The most recent recalculation of the two-loop correction to the static quark-antiquark potential gave the numerical value different from the previously known one. We comment on the effect this change produces on the numerical estimates of…
The $\Lambda_b \to p$ semileptonic decay is analyzed by using QCD sum rules within the framework of heavy quark effective theory. The Isgur-Wise function of $\Lambda_b \to p l \bar\nu$ has been calculated. The decay width is given.
Different methods for treating the results of higher-order perturbative QCD calculations of the decay width of the Standard Model Higgs boson into bottom quarks are discusssed. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the $M_H$…
We consider electroweak corrections to the relation between the running $\overline{\mathrm{MS}}$ mass $m_b$ of the $b$ quark in the five-flavor QCD$\times$QED effective theory and its counterpart in the Standard Model (SM). As a bridge…
The relation between the heavy-quark field in QCD and the corresponding field in HQET is derived up to three loops, and to all orders in the large-$\beta_0$ limit. The corresponding relation between the QED electron field and the…
We determine to order alpha^3 in the quenched approximation the so-called residual mass in the lattice regularisation of the Heavy Quark Effective Theory. We follow a gauge-invariant strategy which exploits the fact that this mass term…
We study the relationship between the $\overline{\mathrm{MS}}$ Yukawa coupling and the pole mass for the bottom and top quarks at the two-loop electroweak order ${\cal O}(\alpha^2)$ in the gaugeless limit of the standard model. We also…
We calculate the three-loop master integrals of Ref. [1] [arXiv:1709.02160] in analytic form. This allows us to present the fermionic contributions to the $\Delta B=2$ Wilson coefficients of the $B$-$\bar B$ decay matrix in…