649 research outputs found
On the angular distribution of decay
We present a full angular distribution of the four body
decay where the leptons are massive
and the is unpolarized, in an operator basis which includes the
Standard Model operators, new vector and axial-vector operators, and scalar and
pseudo-scalar operators. The angular coefficients are expressed in terms of
transversity amplitudes. We study several observables in the Standard Model and in the presence of the
new operators. For our numerical analysis, we use the form factors from lattice
QCD calculations.Comment: accepted by JHEP (charmonium and duality contributions included in
this final version
Optimal renormalization and the extraction of the strange quark mass from moments of the -decay spectral function
We introduce an optimal renormalization group analysis pertinent to the
analysis of polarization functions associated with the -quark mass relevant
in -decay. The technique is based on the renormalization group invariance
constraints which lead to closed form summation of all the leading and
next-to-leading logarithms at each order in perturbation theory. The new
perturbation series exhibits reduced sensitivity to the renormalization scale
and improved behavior in the complex plane along the integration contour. Using
improved experimental and theory inputs, we have extracted the value of the
strange quark mass and from presently available ALEPH and OPAL data
respectively. These determinations are in agreement with the determinations in
other phenomenological methods and from the lattice.Comment: 12 pages, 4 tables, 7 figures, v2 corresponds to version to appear in
Physical Review
Tadpole cancellation in top-quark condensation
We show that quadratic divergences in top-quark condensation are cancelled
when the tadpoles cancel. This latter cancellation is naturally implemented as
the cancellation among the top-quark, Goldstone and Higgs contributions. We
also calculate the bosonic correction terms to Gribov's mass formula for the
Higgs boson. These reduce the prediction for M_H from 167 GeV to 132 GeV. The
tadpole cancellation condition by itself is an independent condition on the
mass of the Higgs boson which, in Gribov's U(1)_Y scenario, yields M_H \approx
117 GeV with large theoretical uncertainty. More generally, we are able to
obtain all three masses, M_W, m_t and M_H, in 100 MeV to 10 TeV energy range as
a function of the cut-off scale and the gauge couplings only.Comment: 7 pages, 20 eps figures. Added error estimates and a new plot (v3).
To be published in Phys. Rev.
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