14–16 May 2008
University at Buffalo
Europe/Zurich timezone

NNLO corrections to heavy fermion decays

14 May 2008, 15:00
15m
120 Clemens Hall (University at Buffalo)

120 Clemens Hall

University at Buffalo

Buffalo, New York

Speaker

Alexey Pak (University of Alberta)

Description

O(alpha_s^2) corrections to semileptonic b-quark decay rate are calculated to several orders in m_c/m_b. Applied to the muon decay, they lead to a -0.43 ppm decrease in the lifetime. We also present recent results of our group on NNLO corrections to t-quark decay into polarized W-bosons.

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