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We present an analysis of the quantum fluctuations around the electroweak sphaleron and calculate the associated determinant which gives the 1--loop correction to the sphaleron transition rate. The calculation differs in various technical…
We have performed a new exact evaluation of the fluctuation determinant $\kappa$ of the electroweak sphaleron with $\Theta _W =0$. The results differ significantly from a previous calculation of this quantity by Carson et. al. . We find…
The electroweak sphaleron rate in the high temperature phase of the Standard Model is inversely proportional to the weak-isospin conductivity. So far, only electroweak interactions were included in its computation. Here we take into account…
Quantum analogues of the transient fluctuation theorem(TFT) and steady-state fluctuation theorem(SSFT) are investigated for a harmonic oscillator linearly coupled with a harmonic reservoir. The probability distribution for the work done…
We determine the fermionic corrections to the nucleation rate of bubbles at the electroweak phase transition. The fermion determinant is evaluated exactly and by using the gradient expansion. The gradient expansion is found to be a reliable…
Sources of uncertainties in perturbative calculations, tadpole improvement and its role in lattice perturbation theory, and six recent calculations are discussed.
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…
We discuss some recent developments in the evaluation of the QCD corrections to $\Delta\rho$, their interpretation, an estimate of the theoretical error, and its effect on electroweak physics.
The fluctuation determinant which determines the preexponential factor of the transition rate for minimal bubbles is computed for the electroweak theory with $\sin \Theta_W = 0$. As the basic action we use the three-dimensional…
We study analytically and numerically the effects of various imperfections in a quantum computation of a simple dynamical model based on the Quantum Wavelet Transform (QWT). The results for fidelity timescales, obtained for a large range of…
An error in the calculation of the Coulomb coupling parameter of the quark-gluon plasma is corrected.
Typographical corrections to the original paper, intended for publication in Physical Review E.
Recently, we discovered a mistake in our Letter on phase dynamics in granular d-wave superconductors, which we corrected in an Erratum published last week. This is an expanded version of the Erratum, containing details and supporting…
The electroweak contributions to the forward-backward asymmetry in the production of top-quark pairs at the Tevatron are evaluated at O(alpha^2) and O(alpha*alphas^2). We perform a detailed analysis of all partonic channels that produce an…
Two-loop electroweak corrections to polarized Moller scattering are studied in two different schemes at low energies. We find the finite $Q^2$ corrections to be well under control. The hadronic and perturbative QCD corrections to the…
Some physical effects of time averaged quantum electric field fluctuations are discussed. The one loop radiative correction to potential scattering are approximately derived from simple arguments which invoke vacuum electric field…
We formulate the first order corrections to processes involving the scattering or annihilation of quarks in a form in which the QCD and electroweak parts are exactly factorised. This allows for a straightforward physical interpretation of…
We calculate the leading-logarithmic and next-to-leading-logarithmic electroweak corrections to the charm-top-quark contribution to the effective $|\Delta S| = 2$ Lagrangian, relevant for the parameter $\epsilon_K$. We find that these…
We show that, at finite weak mixing angle the sphaleron solution of Weinberg-Salam theory can be endowed with angular momentum proportional to the electric charge. Carrying baryon number 1/2 these sphalerons with spin and charge may…
In a recent Comment [arXiv:1108.3399], Dzuba and Flambaum have referred to the disagreement of the results of our latest calculations of Tl electron and scalar-pseudoscalar (S-PS) electric dipole moments (EDMs) and Cs parity…