103 research outputs found
Reconciling EFT and hybrid calculations of the light MSSM Higgs-boson mass
Various methods are used in the literature for predicting the lightest
CP-even Higgs boson mass in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM).
Fixed-order diagrammatic calculations capture all effects at a given order and
yield accurate results for scales of supersymmetric (SUSY) particles that are
not separated too much from the weak scale. Effective field theory calculations
allow a resummation of large logarithmic contributions up to all orders and
therefore yield accurate results for a high SUSY scale. A hybrid approach,
where both methods have been combined, is implemented in the computer code
FeynHiggs. So far, however, at large scales sizeable differences have been
observed between FeynHiggs and other pure EFT codes. In this work, the various
approaches are analytically compared with each other in a simple scenario in
which all SUSY mass scales are chosen to be equal to each other. Three main
sources are identified that account for the major part of the observed
differences. Firstly, it is shown that the scheme conversion of the input
parameters that is commonly used for the comparison of fixed-order results is
not adequate for the comparison of results containing a series of higher-order
logarithms. Secondly, the treatment of higher-order terms arising from the
determination of the Higgs propagator pole is addressed. Thirdly, the effect of
different parametrizations in particular of the top Yukawa coupling in the
non-logarithmic terms is investigated. Taking into account all of these
effects, in the considered simple scenario very good agreement is found for
scales above 1 TeV between the results obtained using the EFT approach and the
hybrid approach of FeynHiggs.Comment: 31 pages, 5 figures, matches version published in EPJ
MSSM Higgs-boson mass predictions and two-loop non-supersymmetric counterterms
The evaluation of Yukawa-enhanced two-loop contributions to the MSSM
Higgs-boson mass is considered. We prove the common assumption that
regularization by dimensional reduction preserves supersymmetry at the required
level. Thus generating counterterms by multiplicative renormalization is
correct. Technically, we identify a suitable Slavnov-Taylor identity, use a
recently developed method to evaluate it at the two-loop level, and show that
it is valid in dimensional reduction.Comment: 14 pages, 2 figure
Precise Calculations for the Neutral Higgs-Boson Masses in the MSSM
We review the comparison of the results for the neutral CP-even Higgs-boson masses recently obtained within the Feynman-diagrammatic approach with the previous results based on the renormalization group approach. We show that the results differ by new genuine two-loop contributions present in the Feynman-diagrammatic calculation. The numerical effect of these terms on the result for m_h is briefly discussed
Calculation of fermionic two-loop contributions to muon decay
The computation of the correction \Delta r in the W-Z mass correlation, derived from muon decay, is described at the two-loop level in the Standard Model. Technical aspects which become relevant at this level are studied, e.g. gauge-parameter independent mass renormalization, ghost-sector renormalization and the treatment of \gamma_5. Exact results for \Delta r and the W mass prediction including O(\alpha^2) corrections with fermion loops are presented and compared with previous results of a next-to-leading order expansion in the top-quark mass
Pair Production of Two-Higgs-Doublet_Model Light Higgs Bosons in Collisions
We study the production of a pair of light, neutral, CP-even Higgs bosons in
photon--photon collisions within the general Two Higgs Doublet Model (THDM).
This is a process for which the lowest order contribution in both, the Standard
Model and the THDM, appears at one loop. We find that the cross section for
this process can be much larger in the THDM than in the Standard Model and the
number of events expected at the Photon Collider will allow a determination of
some of the parameters in the scalar potential.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figure
Pop-up cavities
Метою роботи є дослідження маловивченого на теперішній час процесу переміщення збережених у приповерхневому вуглепородному масиві Донбасу пустот від місця їхнього первинного розташування до земної поверхні.The object of this paper is research into the understudied for now process of cavities, preserved in the sub-surface coal-bearing strata in the Donets Basin, moving from the places of their original location towards the surface.Целью работы является исследование малоизученного в настоящее время процесса перемещения сохранившихся в приповерхностном углепородном массиве Донбасса пустот от мест их первоначального расположения к земной поверхности.
Методика исследования. Проанализированы фактические случаи так называемого всплывания пустот в угледобывающей практике. Выполнен абстрактный расчёт поэтапного всплывания условно сохранившейся выработки (пустоты) в породном массиве различной прочности
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