Published November 23, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Bosonic corrections to the effective weak mixing angle at O(α2)

  • 1. Institute of Nuclear Physics, Radzikowskiego 152, PL-31342 Cracow (Poland)
  • 2. II. Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Universitaet Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, D-22761 Hamburg (Germany)
  • 3. Institut fuer Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik, Universitaet Wuerzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Wuerzburg (Germany) and Department of Field Theory and Particle Physics, Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, Uniwersytecka 4, PL-40007 Katowice (Poland)
  • 4. Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Universitaet Zuerich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich (Switzerland)

Description

We present the complete bosonic contributions to the effective weak mixing angle, sin2θefflept, at the two-loop level in the electroweak interactions. We find their size to be about three times smaller than inferred from simple estimates from lower orders. In particular, for a Higgs boson mass, MH, of 100 GeV they amount to 4x10-6, and drop down by about an order of magnitude for MH=200 GeV. We estimate the intrinsic error of the theory prediction of sin2θefflept to be 4.7x10-5

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2006.07.035;
arXiv
arXiv:hep-ph/0605339v1;
PII
S0370-2693(06)00916-6;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
642
Journal Issue
5-6
Journal Page Range
p. 563-566
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
38064705
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
CORRECTIONS; ERRORS; GEV RANGE 100-1000; HIGGS BOSONS; MASS; WEINBERG ANGLE
Descriptors DEC
BOSONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; GEV RANGE; POSTULATED PARTICLES

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Copyright (c) 2006 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.