11 research outputs found
Effective field theory approach to the gravitational two-body dynamics, at fourth post-Newtonian order and quintic in the Newton constant
Working within the post-Newtonian (PN) approximation to General Relativity,
we use the effective field theory (EFT) framework to study the conservative
dynamics of the two-body motion at fourth PN order, at fifth order in the
Newton constant. This is one of the missing pieces preventing the computation
of the full Lagrangian at fourth PN order using EFT methods. We exploit the
analogy between diagrams in the EFT gravitational theory and 2-point functions
in massless gauge theory, to address the calculation of 4-loop amplitudes by
means of standard multi-loop diagrammatic techniques. For those terms which can
be directly compared, our result confirms the findings of previous studies,
performed using different methods.Comment: Version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D. Appendix C added
with details of amplitude computation
Higher order QCD results for the fermionic contributions of the Higgs-boson decay into two photons and the decoupling function for the MSbar renormalized fine-structure constant
We compute the decoupling function of the MSbar renormalized fine-structure
constant up to four-loop order in perturbative QCD. The results are used in
order to determine the related top-quark contributions to the Higgs-boson decay
into two photons in the heavy top-quark mass limit to order alpha_s^4.Comment: 19 pages, 4 figure
Leptonic contributions to the effective electromagnetic coupling at four-loop order in QED
The running of the effective electromagnetic coupling is for many electroweak
observables the dominant correction. It plays an important role for deriving
constraints on the Standard Model in the context of electroweak precision
measurements. We compute the four-loop QED corrections to the running of the
effective electromagnetic coupling and perform a numerical evaluation of the
different gauge invariant subsets.Comment: 26 pages, 4 figure
Higher Moments of Heavy Quark Correlators in the Low Energy Limit at O(alpha_s^2)
We present the first 30 moments of the low energy expansions of the vector,
axial-vector, scalar and pseudo-scalar heavy quark correlation functions at
three-loop order, including the singlet contribution which appears for the
first time at three loops. In addition we compare the behavior of the moments
for large n with the prediction from threshold calculations.Comment: 32 pages, 7 figure
Automated Evaluation of One-Loop Six-Point Processes for the LHC
In the very near future the first data from LHC will be available. The
searches for the Higgs boson and for new physics will require precise
predictions both for the signal and the background processes. Tree level
calculations typically suffer from large renormalization scale uncertainties. I
present an efficient implementation of an algorithm for the automated, Feynman
diagram based calculation of one-loop corrections to processes with many
external particles. This algorithm has been successfully applied to compute the
virtual corrections of the process in massless
QCD and can easily be adapted for other processes which are required for the
LHC.Comment: 232 pages, PhD thesi