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Observations Concerning the Magnitude of t t Threshold Effects on Electroweak Parameters

Bernd A. Kniehl, Alberto Sirlin

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9401243

Abstract

We discuss a recent analysis of tt threshold effects and its implications for the determination of electroweak parameters. We show that the new formulation, when applied to the ρ parameter for mt≈158~GeV, gives a result of similar magnitude to those previously obtained. In fact, it is quite close to our ``resonance'' calculation. We also present a simple estimate of the size of the threshold effects based on an elementary Bohr-atom model of tt resonances.

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