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Renormalization of beta decay at three loops and beyond

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-09-04 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The anomalous dimension for heavy-heavy-light effective theory operators describing nuclear beta decay is computed through three-loop order in the static limit. The result at order Z2α3Z^2\alpha^3 corrects a previous result in the literature. An all-orders symmetry is shown to relate the anomalous dimensions at leading and subleading powers of ZZ at a given order of α\alpha. The first unknown coefficient for the anomalous dimension now appears at O(Z2α4)O(Z^2\alpha^4).

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@article{arxiv.2402.13307,
  title  = {Renormalization of beta decay at three loops and beyond},
  author = {Kaushik Borah and Richard J. Hill and Ryan Plestid},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.13307},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Matches journal version. Small typos fixed

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