7 research outputs found
Asymptotic properties of Born-improved amplitudes with gauge bosons in the final state
For processes with gauge bosons in the final state we show how to
continuously connect with a single Born-improved amplitude the resonant region,
where resummation effects are important, with the asymptotic region far away
from the resonance, where the amplitude must reduce to its tree-level form.
While doing so all known field-theoretical constraints are respected, most
notably gauge-invariance, unitarity and the equivalence theorem. The
calculations presented are based on the process , mediated by a
possibly resonant Higgs boson; this process captures all the essential
features, and can serve as a prototype for a variety of similar calculations.
By virtue of massive cancellations the resulting closed expressions for the
differential and total cross-sections are particularly compact.Comment: 23 pages, Latex, 4 Figures, uses axodra
Two-loop corrections to the fermionic decay rates of the Higgs boson
We calculate the dominant two-loop
electroweak corrections to the fermi\-onic decay widths of a heavy Higgs boson
in the Standard Model. Use of the Goldstone-boson equivalence theorem reduces
the problem to one involving only the physical Higgs boson and the
Goldstone bosons and of the unbroken theory. The two-loop
corrections are opposite in sign to the one-loop electroweak corrections,
exceed the one-loop corrections in magnitude for , and
increase in relative magnitude as for larger values of . We
conclude that the perturbation expansion in powers of breaks down
for . We discuss briefly the QCD and the complete
one-loop electroweak corrections to , and
comment on the validity of the equivalence theorem. Finally we note how a very
heavy Higgs boson could be described in a phenomenological manner.Comment: 24 pages, RevTeX file, 4 figures in a separate compressed uuencoded
Postscript file or available by mail on request. Fig. 1 not included see
Figs. 1, 2 in Phys. Rev. D 48, 1061 (1993
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Production of pseudoscalar Higgs-bosons in e {gamma} collisions
We investigate the production of a pseudoscalar Higgs-boson A{sup 0} using the reaction e{gamma} {yields} e A{sup 0} at an e{bar e} collider with center of mass energy of 500 GeV. Supersymmetric contributions are included and provide a substantial enhancement to the cross section for most values of the symmetry breaking parameters. We find that, despite the penalty incurred in converting one of the beams into a source of backscattered photons, the e{gamma} process is a promising channel for the detection of the A{sup 0}
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Radiative corrections to the decays K{sub L}{sup 0} {r_arrow} e{sup +}e{sup {minus}} and K{sub L}{sup 0} {r_arrow} {mu}{sup +} {mu}{sup {minus}}
The authors calculate the rates and lepton ({ell}) invariant mass distributions for decays of the form 0{sup {minus}+} {r_arrow} {ell}{sup +}{ell}{sup {minus}}{gamma}, which are important radiative corrections to the purely leptonic decays 0{sup {minus}+} {r_arrow} {ell}{sup +}{ell}{sup {minus}}. The approach uses the loop diagrams which arise by including the two photon intermediate state and they retain the imaginary parts of the loops--a radiative extension of the unitarity bound for the process. These results are compared with those obtained using a model in which the meson couples directly to the leptons
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Radiative higgs boson decays H {yields} f{anti f}{gamma}
Higgs boson radiative decays of the form H {r_arrow} f{ovr f}{gamma} are calculated in the Standard Model using the complete one-loop expressions for the decay amplitudes. Contributions to the radiative width from leptons and light quarks are given. We also present e{ovr e} invariant mass distributions for H {r_arrow} e{ovr e}{gamma}, which illustrate the importance of the photon pole contribution and the effects of the box diagrams. 4 refs., 6 figs