Heavy-Quark Form Factors and Threshold Cross Section at O(α_S^2)

Abstract

During the last year, analytic expressions for the two-loop QCD corrections to the form factors for the vector, axial-vector, scalar and pseudo-scalar vertices involving a pair of heavy quarks, $Q\bar{Q}$, were calculated. The results are valid for arbitrary momentum transfer and mass of the heavy quarks. These form factors have a number of applications, including anomalous couplings, the $e^{+}{e}^{-}\to Q\bar{Q}$ cross section, and the forward-backward asymmetry of heavy quarks. Here the $Q\bar{Q}$ threshold cross section is presented with some new second order axial vector contributions.

5 pages. Presented at the International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics (HEP2005), July 21-27 2005, Lisboa, Portugal