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The two-loop electroweak bosonic corrections to $\sin^2\theta_{\rm eff}^{\rm b}$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-10-04 v2

Abstract

The prediction of the effective electroweak mixing angle sin2θeffb\sin^2\theta_{\rm eff}^{\rm b} in the Standard Model at two-loop accuracy has now been completed by the first calculation of the bosonic two-loop corrections to the ZbˉbZ{\bar b}b vertex. Numerical predictions are presented in the form of a fitting formula as function of MZ,MW,MH,mtM_Z, M_W, M_H, m_t and Δα\Delta{\alpha}, αs{\alpha_{\rm s}}. For central input values, we obtain a relative correction of Δκb(α2,bos)=0.9855×104\Delta\kappa_{\rm b}^{(\alpha^2,\rm bos)} = -0.9855 \times 10^{-4}, amounting to about a quarter of the fermionic corrections, and corresponding to sin2θeffb=0.232704\sin^2\theta_{\rm eff}^{\rm b} = 0.232704. The integration of the corresponding two-loop vertex Feynman integrals with up to three dimensionless parameters in Minkowskian kinematics has been performed with two approaches: (i) Sector decomposition, implemented in the packages FIESTA 3 and SecDec 3, and (ii) Mellin-Barnes representations, implemented in AMBRE 3/MB and the new package MBnumerics.

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@article{arxiv.1607.08375,
  title  = {The two-loop electroweak bosonic corrections to $\sin^2\theta_{\rm eff}^{\rm b}$},
  author = {Ievgen Dubovyk and Ayres Freitas and Janusz Gluza and Tord Riemann and Johann Usovitsch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.08375},
  year   = {2016}
}

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14 pp; v2: some explanations and Tab.2 added, version published in PLB

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