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Corrections of Order $αα_s$ to W Boson Decays

arXiv:1307.7190 · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2013.10.024

Abstract

We present the calculation of the mixed two-loop QCD/electroweak corrections to hadronic W boson decays within the Standard Model. The optical theorem is applied to the W boson two-point function. The multi-scale integrals are computed with the help of asymptotic expansions, which factorize the three-loop diagrams into one- and two-loop vacuum and propagator-type integrals.

36 pages, 16 figures, 5 tables; v2 accepted for publication in Nuclear Physics B; v3: typos corrected