Climbing NLO and NNLO summits of weak decays: 1988--2023

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSREP.2023.07.002arXiv1102.5650MaRDI QIDQ6094622FDOQ6094622

Authors: Andrzej J. Buras 

Publication date: 14 September 2023

Published in: Physics Reports (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: I describe the history of the calculations of NLO and NNLO QCD corrections to weak decays of mesons and particle-antiparticle mixing in the period 1988-2023. Also existing calculations of electroweak and QED corrections to these processes are included in this presentation. These efforts bear some analogies to the climbing of Himalayas and various expeditions by several teams of strongly motivated "climbers" allowed to move this field from the LO through the NLO to the NNLO level. We also summarize the most recent calculations within the Standard Model Effective Field Theory. The material is meant to be an up to date review of this very advanced field in non-technical terms as much as possible and a guide to the rich literature on NLO and NNLO corrections in question. In particular we stress for which processes these calculations are crucial for the tests of the Standard Model and to be able to differentiate between numerous New Physics models. It includes several anecdotes related to the climbs that I was involved in. I hope that some of the comments made in the course of the presentation could turn out to be not only amusing but also instructive.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.5650

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zbMATH Keywords

weak decayshigher order QCD corrections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ergodicity, mixing, rates of mixing (37A25) Nuclear physics (81V35) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Extrapolation to the limit, deferred corrections (65B05) Effective constitutive equations in solid mechanics (74Q15) Development of contemporary mathematics (01A65) Mono-, di- and multipole moments (EM and other), gyromagnetic relations (81V60) Particle decays (81U90)

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