Narrow-width approximation accuracy

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2009.01.022MaRDI QIDQ993187zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christoph F. Uhlemann, N. Kauer

Publication date 10 September 2010

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.4112

zbMATH Keywords

perturbative calculationsnarrow-width approximationresonant particle production

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Inelastic and multichannel quantum scattering (81U35) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

Abstract: A study of general properties of the narrow-width approximation (NWA) with polarization/spin decorrelation is presented. We prove for total rates of arbitrary resonant decay or scattering processes with an on-shell intermediate state decaying via a cubic or quartic vertex that decorrelation effects vanish and the NWA is of order Gamma. Its accuracy is then determined numerically for all resonant 3-body decays involving scalars, spin-1/2 fermions or vector bosons. We specialize the general results to MSSM benchmark scenarios. Significant off-shell corrections can occur - similar in size to QCD corrections. We qualify the configurations in which a combined consideration is advisable. For this purpose, we also investigate process-independent methods to improve the NWA.

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