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The complex-mass scheme for perturbative calculations with unstable particles

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

Perturbative calculations with unstable particles require the inclusion of their finite decay widths. A convenient, universal scheme for this purpose is the complex-mass scheme. It fully respects gauge-invariance, is straight-forward to apply, and has been successfully used for the calculation of various tree-level processes and of the electroweak radiative corrections to e+ e- -> 4f and H -> 4f.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0605312,
  title  = {The complex-mass scheme for perturbative calculations with unstable particles},
  author = {A. Denner and S. Dittmaier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0605312},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

5 pages, LaTeX, to appear in the proceedings of the "8th DESY Workshop on Elementary Particle Theory, Loops and Legs in Quantum Field Theory", Eisenach, 2006

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