$\gamma Z$ Box at Low Energy (8')

6 May 2026, 10:20
8m
Sala SATURNO B, First Floor (Hotel Carlton)

Sala SATURNO B, First Floor

Hotel Carlton

Flash talk WG3 Electroweak Physics, top, Higgs and Beyond the Standard Model WG3 Electro-weak physics/higgs/top and BSM

Speaker

Balma Duch (Institut de Física d'Altes Energies (IFAE))

Description

We calculate the 1-loop $\gamma Z$ box-graph correction to electron-quark scattering at low energy and low momentum transfer. Both electron and quark masses are kept non-zero. From our result, we extract coupling constants for the low-energy effective Lagrangian with parity-violating 4-fermion interaction terms. We study the zero-mass limits and show that a non-zero electron mass is sufficient to obtain finite, well-defined couplings which are insensitive to a hadronic mass cutoff. We finally discuss the impact of our results on the determination of the weak charge of the proton from polarized electron-proton scattering.

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Authors

Balma Duch (Institut de Física d'Altes Energies (IFAE)) Hubert Spiesberger (Institut für Physik, University Mainz) Pere Masjuan (Institut de Física d'Altes Energies (IFAE))

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