We find the leading electro-weak corrections to the HQET/NRQCD Lagrangian. These corrections appear in the Wilson coefficients of the two and four quark operators and are considered here up to $mathcal{O}(1/m^3)$ at one-loop order. The two quark operators up to this order will include new CP-violating terms, which we derived analogously to the CP preserving QCD result at one-loop order.
The QCD/HQET matching coefficient for the heavy-quark field is calculated up to four loops. It must be finite; this requirement produces analytical results for some terms in the four-loop on-shell heavy-quark field renormalization constant which were previously only known numerically. The effect of a non-zero lighter-flavor mass is calculated up to three loops. A class of on-shell integrals with two masses is analyzed in detail. By specifying our result to QED, we obtain the relation between the electron field and the Bloch--Nordsieck field with four-loop accuracy.
We calculate the $Lambda_b to Lambda_c^*(2595) l u$ and $Lambda_b to Lambda_c^*(2625) l u$ form factors and decay rates for all possible $b to c l bar u$ four-Fermi interactions in and beyond the Standard Model (SM), including nonzero charged lepton masses and terms up to order $mathcal{O}(alpha_s, 1/m_{c,b})$ in the heavy quark effective theory (HQET). We point out a subtlety involving the overcompleteness of the representation of the spin-parity $1/2^+ to 3/2^-$ antisymmetric tensor form factors, relevant also to other higher excited-state transitions, and present a general method for the counting of the physical form factors for any hadronic transition matrix element and their matching onto HQET. We perform a preliminary fit of a simple HQET-based parametrization of the $Lambda_b to Lambda_c^*$ form factors at $mathcal{O}(alpha_s, 1/m_{c,b})$ to an existing quark model, providing preliminary predictions for the lepton universality ratios $R(Lambda_c^*)$ beyond the SM. Finally, we examine the putative incompatibility of recent lattice QCD results with expectations from the heavy-quark expansion and available experimental data.
We calculate the one loop renormalisation parameters for the heavy-light axial-vector and vector currents using lattice perturbation theory. We use NonRelativistic QCD (NRQCD) heavy quarks and the Highly Improved Staggered Quark (HISQ) action for the light quarks. We present results for heavy-light currents with massless HISQ quarks and briefly discuss the extension to heavy-heavy currents with massive HISQ quarks.
In this paper, we accomplish the complete one-loop matching of the type-I seesaw model onto the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT), by integrating out three heavy Majorana neutrinos with the functional approach. It turns out that only 31 dimension-six operators (barring flavor structures and Hermitian conjugates) in the Warsaw basis of the SMEFT can be obtained, and most of them appear at the one-loop level. The Wilson coefficients of these 31 dimension-six operators are computed up to $mathcal{O}left( M^{-2}right)$ with $M$ being the mass scale of heavy Majorana neutrinos. As the effects of heavy Majorana neutrinos are encoded in the Wilson coefficients of these higher-dimensional operators, a complete one-loop matching is useful to explore the low-energy phenomenological consequences of the type-I seesaw model. In addition, the threshold corrections to the couplings in the Standard Model and to the coefficient of the dimension-five operator are also discussed.
We discuss the constraints induced by the algebra of the Poincare generators on non-relativistic effective field theories. In the first part we derive some relations among the matching coefficients of the HQET (and NRQCD), which have been formerly obtained by use of reparametrization invariance. In the second part we obtain new constraints on the matching coefficients of pNRQCD.