Next-to-leading mass singularities in two-loop electroweak singlet form factors
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Description
We consider virtual electroweak corrections to the form factors for massless chiral fermions coupling to an SU(2)xU(1) singlet gauge boson in the asymptotic region s >> MW2∼MZ2, where the invariant mass s of the external gauge boson is much higher than the weak-boson mass scale. Using the sector-decomposition method we compute mass singularities, which arise as logarithms of s/MW2 and 1/ε poles in D=4-2ε dimensions, to one- and two-loop next-to-leading-logarithmic accuracy. In this approximation we include all contributions of order αlεklogj+k(s/MW2), with l=1,2 and j=2l,2l-1. We find that the electroweak two-loop leading- and next-to-leading-logarithmic mass singularities can be written in a form that corresponds to a generalization of Catani's formula for massless QCD
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Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2004.05.025;
- arXiv
- arXiv:hep-ph/0401087v2;
- PII
- S0550321304003530;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Physics. B
- Journal Volume
- 692
- Journal Issue
- 1-2
- Journal Page Range
- p. 135-174
- ISSN
- 0550-3213
- CODEN
- NUPBBO
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 36012238
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BOSONS; CORRECTIONS; COUPLING; DIMENSIONS; FERMIONS; FORM FACTORS; MASS; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; SINGULARITY; SU-2 GROUPS; U-1 GROUPS
- Descriptors DEC
- FIELD THEORIES; LIE GROUPS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SU GROUPS; SYMMETRY GROUPS; U GROUPS
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- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2004 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.