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R2SM: a package for the analytic computation of the R 2 Rational terms in the Standard Model of the Electroweak interactions

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The analytical package written in FORM presented in this paper allows the computation of the complete set of Feynman Rules producing the Rational terms of kind R2 contributing to the virtual part of NLO corrections in the Standard Model of the Electroweak interactions. Building block topologies filled by means of generic scalars, vectors and fermions, allowing to build these Feynman Rules in terms of specific elementary particles, are explicitly given in the R ξ gauge class, together with the automatic dressing procedure to obtain the Feynman Rules from them. The results in more specific gauges, like the ’t Hooft Feynman one, follow as particular cases, in both the HV and the FDH dimensional regularization schemes. As a check on our formulas, the gauge independence of the total Rational contribution (R1+R2) to renormalized S-matrix elements is verified by considering the specific example of the H→γγ decay process at 1-loop. This package can be of interest for people aiming at a better understanding of the nature of the Rational terms. It is organized in a modular way, allowing a further use of some its files even in different contexts. Furthermore, it can be considered as a first seed in the effort towards a complete automation of the process of the analytical calculation of the R2 effective vertices, given the Lagrangian of a generic gauge theory of particle interactions.

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Garzelli, M.V., Malamos, I. R2SM: a package for the analytic computation of the R 2 Rational terms in the Standard Model of the Electroweak interactions. Eur. Phys. J. C 71, 1605 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1605-6

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