4 papers
A Canonical Hamiltonian Derivation of Hawking Radiation
Kirill Melnikov, Marvin Weinstein
We present a derivation of Hawking radiation based on canonical quantization of a massless scalar field in the background of a Schwarzschild black hole using Lemaitre coordinates a…
Top-Antitop Pair Production close to Threshold: Synopsis of recent NNLO Results
A. H. Hoang, M. Beneke, K. Melnikov +10
Using non-relativistic effective theories, new next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to the total production cross section at the Linear Collider have been…
Recent results with heavy quarks and light lepton bound states
Andrzej Czarnecki, Kirill Melnikov, Alexander Yelkhovsky
Recent results on second order quantum corrections to semileptonic decays of b quarks and positronium spectroscopy are reviewed. Similarities between calculations in these seemingl…
Perturbative QCD calculations with heavy quarks
Andrzej Czarnecki, Kirill Melnikov
We review recent calculations of second order corrections to heavy quark decays. Techniques developed in this context are applicable to many processes involving heavy charged parti…