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Two-loop electroweak top corrections: are they under control?
The assumption that two-loop top corrections are well approximated by the
contribution is investigated. It is shown that in the case of
the ratio neutral-to-charged current amplitudes at zero momentum transfer the
terms are numerically comparable to the
contribution for realistic values of the top mass. An estimate of the
theoretical error due to unknown two-loop top effect is presented for a few
observables of LEP interest.Comment: 13 pages, LaTeX using equations, doublespace, cite macros. Hard
copies of the paper including one figure are available from
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Fermion Virtual Effects in Cross Section
We analyse the contribution of new heavy virtual fermions to the cross section. We find that there exists a relevant
interplay between trilinear and bilinear oblique corrections. The result
strongly depends on the chiral or vector--like nature of the new fermions. As
for the chiral case we consider sequential fermions: one obtains substantial
deviation from the Standard model prediction, making the effect possibly
detectable at or GeV linear colliders. As an example for
the vector--like case we take a SUSY extension with heavy charginos and
neutralinos: due to cancellation, the final effect turns out to be negligible.Comment: uuencoded, gz-compressed, tar-ed file. 8 pages, 4 EPS figures, uses
EPSFIG.ST
Parton Density Uncertainties and the Determination of Electroweak Parameters at Hadron Colliders
We discuss the determination of electroweak parameters from hadron collider
observables, focusing on the boson mass measurement. We revise the
procedures adopted in the literature to include in the experimental analysis
the uncertainty due to our imperfect knowledge of the proton structure. We show
how the treatment of the proton parton density functions (PDFs) uncertainty as
a source of systematic error, leads to the automatic inclusion in the fit of
the bin-bin correlation of the kinematic distributions with respect to PDF
variations. In the case of the determination of from the charged lepton
transverse momentum distribution, we observe that the inclusion of this
correlation factor yields a strong reduction of the PDF uncertainty, given a
sufficiently good control over all the other error sources. This improvement
depends on a systematic accounting of the features of the QCD-based PDF model,
and it is achieved relying only on the information available in current PDF
sets. While a realistic quantitative estimate requires to take into account the
details of the experimental systematics, we argue that, in perspective, the
proton PDF uncertainty will not be a bottleneck for precision measurements.Comment: 5 pages, 6 figures; v2: title changed, minor textual changes, version
published on PR
Towards precise predictions for Higgs-boson production in the MSSM
We study the production of scalar and pseudoscalar Higgs bosons via gluon
fusion and bottom-quark annihilation in the MSSM. Relying on the NNLO-QCD
calculation implemented in the public code SusHi, we provide precise
predictions for the Higgs-production cross section in six benchmark scenarios
compatible with the LHC searches. We also provide a detailed discussion of the
sources of theoretical uncertainty in our calculation. We examine the
dependence of the cross section on the renormalization and factorization
scales, on the precise definition of the Higgs-bottom coupling and on the
choice of PDFs, as well as the uncertainties associated to our incomplete
knowledge of the SUSY contributions through NNLO. In particular, a potentially
large uncertainty originates from uncomputed higher-order QCD corrections to
the bottom-quark contributions to gluon fusion.Comment: 62 pages, 24 pdf figures; v2: minor clarifications, improved plot
quality, matches published versio
Nasal pathologies in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea
Nasal obstruction is a frequent condition in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). Nasal obstruction leads to mouth breathing, which
is thought to destabilise the upper airway to aggravate the condition. Three conditions could be considered as the cause of the nasal breathing
obstruction: anatomical conditions of the nose (septum deviation, hypertrophy of the inferior turbinates), chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) and
chronic nasal inflammation caused by allergic rhinitis or non-allergic cellular rhinitis. In this prospective study, we present an evaluation of
all these possible rhino-sinusal aspects in OSA patients to correlate different nasal pathologies with nasal obstruction. Fifty patients with a
diagnosis of OSA were enrolled in the study. In 70% of OSA patients, nasal obstruction was confirmed by clinical evaluation and rhinomanometry testing. Normal rhino-sinus aspects were present in only 20% of OSAS patients, whereas one or more pathological rhino-sinus
conditions were present in the remaining 80%. The percentage of OSA patients with a diagnosis of allergic rhinitis and non-allergic rhinitis
was 18% and 26% respectively. Non-allergic rhinitis with neutrophils (NARNE) was the most frequent type of cellular rhinitis diagnosed
in OSA patients (20% of cases). The results of the present study support and extend the observation that rhinitis is present in OSA patients.
Mucosal inflammation caused by these conditions could be the cause of upper airway patency impairment inducing nasal mucosa swellin
Interplay of QCD and EW corrections and precision physics at hadron colliders
The interplay between QCD and EW corrections, relevant at a hadron collider for the high- precision measurement of EW parameters, is presented, with a brief overview of some currently open questions
Bottom quark mass effects on the ptZ spectrum and the W mass determination
We briefly discuss the role of the subprocesses initiated by bottom quarks in the study of the Drell-Yan observables and the treatment of the bottom quark mass effects; we eventually estimate the impact of these approximations in the high-precision determination of the W boson mass
Two-loop electroweak corrections to Higgs production in proton-proton collisions
We study the impact of the two-loop electroweak corrections on the production
of a Higgs boson via gluon-fusion in proton-proton collisions at LHC energies.
We discuss the prescritpion to include the corrections to the hard scattering
matrix element in the calculation of the hadronic cross-section sigma (p+p\to
H+X). Under the hypothesis of factorization of the electroweak corrections with
respect to the dominant soft and collinear QCD radiation, we observe an
increase of the total cross-section from 4 to 8 %, for MH <=160 GeV. This
increase is comparable with the present QCD uncertainties originating from hard
scattering matrix elements.Comment: 8 pages, contribution to the TeV4LHC workshop, Brookhaven, Upton, New
York, 3-5 Feb 200
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