Bread and butter physics: NLO electroweak corrections to polarized top quark decays

TL;DR

This paper discusses ongoing work on calculating next-to-leading order electroweak corrections to polarized top quark decays, which is important for precision tests of the Standard Model.

Contribution

It presents the status of a new calculation of electroweak corrections to polarized top quark decay processes at NLO accuracy.

Findings

Calculation of NLO electroweak corrections in progress

Improves precision of top decay predictions

Aims to enhance Standard Model tests

Abstract

We report on the status of an ongoing calculation of the NLO electroweak corrections to sequential polarized top quark decays $t(\uparrow) \to X_b +W^+ (\to \ell^+ +\nu_\ell)$.