Electroweak two-loop corrections to the effective weak mixing angle

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Awramik, Małgorzata ^a,b   Czakon, Michał ^c,d   Freitas, Ayres ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

LEP HERA and SLC Physics; Standard Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846256688     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/11/048     Document Type: Review

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