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Order Nfα2 Corrections in Low-Energy Electroweak Processes

1997/07/30 by R. Akhoury, Ratindranath Akhoury, Paresh J. Malde +5
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Computational Physics and Python Applications #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9707520

10 pages LaTeX. 4 figures. Uses amsmath.sty, cite.sty and epsfig.sty

arxiv created 1997/07/30 · openalex publication_date 1997/07/30 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2024/04/11 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We provide a compendium of techniques that can be used to compute O(Nfα2) corrections to low-energy electroweak processes. Specifically, these are the 2-loop electroweak corrections containing a light fermion loop. It is shown that the vast majority of such corrections can be reduced to expressions involving a universal master integral for which an exact analytic form in dimensional regularization is given. The only exceptions are certain photon vacuum polarization diagrams. Examples are presented for diagrams that occur in a variety of processes of practical interest.

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