We describe the 1.2 update to NLOX, a computer program for calculations in high-energy particle physics. New features since the 1.0 release and other changes are described, along with usage documentation.
NLOX is a computer program for calculations in high-energy particle physics. It provides fully renormalized scattering matrix elements in the Standard Model of particle physics, up to one-loop accuracy for all possible coupling-power combinations in
the strong and electroweak couplings, and for processes with up to six external particles.
In this paper we present the complete one-loop matching conditions, up to dimension-six operators of the Standard Model effective field theory, resulting by integrating out the two scalar leptoquarks $S_{1}$ and $S_{3}$. This allows a phenomenologica
l study of low-energy constraints on this model at one-loop accuracy, which will be the focus of a subsequent work. Furthermore, it provides a rich comparison for functional and computational methods for one-loop matching, that are being developed. As a corollary result, we derive a complete set of dimension-six operators independent under integration by parts, but not under equations of motions, called Greens basis, as well as the complete reduction formulae from this set to the Warsaw basis.
We calculate the one-loop corrections to TeV scale dark matter annihilation in a model where the dark matter is described by an SU(2)$_L$ triplet of Majorana fermions, such as the wino. We use this framework to determine the high and low-scale MS-bar
matching coefficients at both the dark matter and weak boson mass scales at one loop. Part of this calculation has previously been performed in the literature numerically; we find our analytic result differs from the earlier work and discuss potential origins of this disagreement. Our result is used to extend the dark matter annihilation rate to NLL (NLL+O($alpha_2$) corrections) which enables a precise determination of indirect detection signatures in present and upcoming experiments.
We formulate the chiral perturbation theory at the one loop level in the effective lagrangian including the $rho$ meson as a dynamical gauge boson of a hidden local symmetry(HLS). The size of radiative correction to the phenomenological parameter $a$
of HLS is estimated to be about $10$%. The complete list of ${cal O}(E^4)$ terms is given and the one loop counter terms are determined explicitly in the $N$ flavor model. We also obtain matching conditions to the conventional chiral perturbation of Gasser and Leutwyler in the chiral limit in a renormalization scale independent manner. We find that Gasser--Leutwylers estimates for $L_{9,10}$ are saturated by $rho$ and its one loop contributions without introducing non-minimal couplings of $pi$-$rho$ system, suggesting the absence of the tree level $a_1$ meson contributions.
We suggest a new approach for the automatic and fully numerical evaluation of one-loop scattering amplitudes in perturbative quantum field theory. We use suitably formulated dispersion relations to perform the calculation as a convolution of tree-lev
el amplitudes. This allows to take advantage of the iterative numerical algorithms for the evaluation of leading order matrix elements.