Electroweak Parameters in the $\overline{MS}$-Scheme

Abstract

We study electroweak parameters sensitive to the radiative corrections, such as $\rho$-ratio and $\hff$ decay rates in the $\ms$-scheme in the heavy $t$-quark mass limit $m_t\gg m_w$. In $\ms$-scheme the two-loop electroweak corrections $\sim m_t^4$ dominate over the QCD corrections $\sim \as m_{t}^{2}$ in the $\rho$-ratio. The relation between the on-shell coupling constants and $\ms$-parameters is found to be rather sensitive to the Higgs boson mass.

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