Published December 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Two loop electroweak corrections from heavy fermions to b → s + γ

  • 1. Department of Physics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian (China)
  • 2. Center for High Energy Physics, Peking University, Beijing (China)

Description

Applying an effective Lagrangian method and an on-shell scheme, we analyze the electroweak corrections to the rare decay b → s + γ from some special two loop diagrams in which a closed heavy fermion loop is attached to the virtual charged gauge bosons or Higgs. At the decoupling limit where the virtual fermions in the inner loop are much heavier than the electroweak scale, we verify the final results satisfying the decoupling theorem explicitly when the interactions among Higgs and heavy fermions do not contain the non decoupling couplings. Adopting the universal assumptions on the relevant couplings and mass spectrum of new physics, we find that the relative corrections from those two loop diagrams to the SM theoretical prediction on the branching ratio of B → Xs γ can reach 5% as the energy scale of new physics ΛNP = 200 GeV. (authors)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Chinese Physics. C, High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
34
Journal Issue
12
Journal Page Range
p. 1797-1811
ISSN
1674-1137

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Notes
3 figs., 21 refs.