Published November 1999 | Version v1
Journal article

Non-singlet corrections of O(αs2GFMt2) to Γ(Z→b anti b)

  • 1. Karlsruhe Univ. (T.H.) (Germany). Inst. fuer Theoretische Physik
  • 2. Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Universitaet Bern, CH-3012 Bern (Switzerland)

Description

The partial decay rate of the Z boson into bottom quarks constitutes an important decay channel. This is mainly due to the virtual presence of the top quark in the loop diagrams giving rise to correction factors which are quadratic in the top quark mass. At one- and two-loop order it turned out that the leading term in the heavy-top expansion leads to very good approximations to the exact result. In this work the non-singlet diagrams at O(αs2GFMt2) are considered. (orig.)

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Journal Title
European Physical Journal. C
Journal Volume
11
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 89-92
ISSN
1434-6044

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