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hep-ph2005★ 46 cited

Automated Calculation Scheme for alpha^n Contributions of QED to Lepton g-2: Generating Renormalized Amplitudes for Diagrams without Lepton Loops

T. Aoyama, M. Hayakawa, T. Kinoshita +1

Among 12672 Feynman diagrams contributing to the electron anomalous magnetic moment at the tenth order, 6354 are the diagrams having no lepton loops, i.e., those of quenched type.…

hep-ph2005★ 25 cited

Effective Field Theory and Heavy Quark Physics

Matthias Neubert

These notes are based on five lectures presented at the 2004 Theoretical Advanced Study Institute (TASI) on ``Physics in D>=4''. After a brief motivation of flavor physics, they pr…

hep-ph2005★ 123 cited

Toward a NNLO calculation of the B-->X_s gamma decay rate with a cut on photon energy: I. Two-loop result for the soft function

Thomas Becher, Matthias Neubert

A theoretical analysis of the partial inclusive B-->X_s gamma decay rate with a cut E_gamma>E_0 on photon energy must deal with short-distance contributions associated with three d…

hep-ph2005★ 164 cited

The flavor of a little Higgs with T-parity

Jay Hubisz, Seung J. Lee, Gil Paz

We analyze flavor constraints in the littlest Higgs model with T-parity. In particular, we focus on neutral meson mixing in the K, B, and D systems due to one loop contributions fr…

hep-ph2005★ 395 cited

Little Higgs Models and Their Phenomenology

Maxim Perelstein

This article reviews the Little Higgs models of electroweak symmetry breaking and their phenomenology. Little Higgs models incorporate a light composite Higgs boson and remain pert…

hep-ph2005★ 120 cited

The Tenth-Order QED Contribution to the Lepton g-2: Evaluation of Dominant Terms of Muon g-2

T. Kinoshita, M. Nio

The QED contribution to the anomalous magnetic moments of electron and muon are known very precisely up to the order . However, the knowledge of term will also be requir…

hep-ph2005★ 84 cited

High-precision determination of the light-quark masses from realistic lattice QCD

Quentin Mason, Howard D. Trottier, Ron Horgan +2

Three-flavor lattice QCD simulations and two-loop perturbation theory are used to make the most precise determination to date of the strange-, up-, and down-quark masses, , $m…

hep-ph2005★ 56 cited

The Super-little Higgs

Csaba Csaki, Guido Marandella, Yuri Shirman +1

Supersymmetry combined with little-Higgs can render the Higgs vev super-little, providing models of electroweak symmetry breaking free from fine-tunings. We discuss the difficultie…

hep-ph2005★ 97 cited

Fully Radiative Electroweak Symmetry Breaking

Giacomo Cacciapaglia, Csaba Csaki, Seong Chan Park

Models of Gauge-Higgs unification in extra dimensions offer a very elegant playground where one can study electroweak symmetry breaking. The nicest feature is that gauge symmetry i…

hep-ph2005★ 112 cited

Model-Independent Properties of the B-Meson Distribution Amplitude

Seung J. Lee, Matthias Neubert

The operator product expansion is used to obtain model-independent predictions for the first two moments of the renormalized B-meson light-cone distribution amplitude phi_+(omega,m…

hep-ph2005★ 3 cited

Phenomenology of Higgsless Models at the LHC and the ILC

Andreas Birkedal, Konstantin T. Matchev, Maxim Perelstein

We investigate the signatures of the recently proposed Higgsless models at future colliders. We focus on tests of the mechanism of partial unitarity restoration in the longitudinal…

hep-ph2005★ 23 cited

A two-loop relation between inclusive radiative and semileptonic B-decay spectra

Bjorn O. Lange, Matthias Neubert, Gil Paz

A shape-function independent relation is derived between the partial B->X_u+l+nu decay rate with a cut on P_+=E_X-P_X<Delta and a weighted integral over the normalized B->X_s+gamma…

hep-ph2005★ 10 cited

Testing Cosmology at the ILC

A. Birkedal, K. Matchev, J. Alexander +6

We investigate the capabilities for the LHC and the ILC to perform measurements of new physics parameters relevant for the calculation of the cosmological relic abundance of the li…

hep-ph2005★ 49 cited

Robust Gamma Ray Signature of WIMP Dark Matter

Andreas Birkedal, Konstantin T. Matchev, Maxim Perelstein +1

If dark matter consists of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), annihilation of WIMPs in the galactic center may lead to an observable enhancement of high energy gamma ray…

hep-ph2005★ 134 cited

Improved Term of the Electron Anomalous Magnetic Moment

T. Kinoshita, M. Nio

We report a new value of electron , or , from 891 Feynman diagrams of order . The FORTRAN codes of 373 diagrams containing closed electron loops have been verified b…

hep-ph2005★ 71 cited

Time-Independent Measurements of D0-D0bar Mixing and Relative Strong Phases Using Quantum Correlations

D. M. Asner, W. M. Sun

Due to quantum correlations in the C=-1 and C=+1 D0 D0bar pairs produced in the reactions e+ e- --> D0 D0bar (n pi0) and e+ e- --> D0 D0bar gamma (n pi0), respectively, the time-in…

hep-ph2005★ 296 cited

The role of polarized positrons and electrons in revealing fundamental interactions at the Linear Collider

G. Moortgat-Pick, T. Abe, G. Alexander +71

The proposed International Linear Collider (ILC) is well-suited for discovering physics beyond the Standard Model and for precisely unraveling the structure of the underlying physi…

hep-ph2005★ 68 cited

Top and Bottom: a Brane of Their Own

Giacomo Cacciapaglia, Csaba Csaki, Christophe Grojean +2

We consider extra dimensional descriptions of models where there are two separate strongly interacting sectors contributing to electroweak symmetry breaking (``topcolor'' type mode…

hep-ph2005★ 50 cited

Advanced Predictions for Moments of the B->X_s+gamma Photon Spectrum

Matthias Neubert

Based on a new, exact QCD factorization formula for the partial B->X_s+gamma decay rate with a restriction on large photon energy, improved predictions are presented for the partia…

hep-ph2005★ 244 cited

Electroweak Precision Constraints on the Littlest Higgs Model with T Parity

Jay Hubisz, Patrick Meade, Andrew Noble +1

We compute the leading corrections to the properties of W and Z bosons induced at the one-loop level in the SU(5)/SO(5) Littlest Higgs model with T parity, and perform a global fit…

hep-ph2005★ 182 cited

Theory of Charmless Inclusive B Decays and the Extraction of V_{ub}

Bjorn O. Lange, Matthias Neubert, Gil Paz

We present ``state-of-the-art'' theoretical expressions for the triple differential B->X_u l^- nu decay rate and for the B->X_s gamma photon spectrum, which incorporate all known c…

hep-ph2005★ 55 cited

Factorization in B->V gamma Decays

Thomas Becher, Richard J. Hill, Matthias Neubert

The factorization properties of the radiative decays B->V gamma are analyzed at leading order in 1/m_b using the soft-collinear effective theory. It is shown that the decay amplitu…

hep-ph2005★ 71 cited

Lower Limit on Dark Matter Production at the Large Hadron Collider

Jonathan L. Feng, Shufang Su, Fumihiro Takayama

We evaluate the prospects for finding evidence of dark matter production at the Large Hadron Collider. We consider WIMPs and superWIMPs, weakly- and superweakly-interacting massive…