A. I. Bochkarev, R. S. Willey
Published 1996-07-04, updated 1998-05-20Version 2
We study electroweak parameters sensitive to the radiative corrections, such as $\rho$-ratio and $\hff$ decay rates in the $\ms$-scheme in the heavy $t$-quark mass limit $m_{t} \gg m_{w}$. In $\ms$-scheme the two-loop electroweak corrections $\sim m_{t}^{4}$ dominate over the QCD corrections $\sim \as m_{t}^{2}$ in the $\rho$-ratio. The relation between the on-shell coupling constants and $\ms$-parameters is found to be rather sensitive to the Higgs boson mass.
Comments: 32 pages of Latex + 6 Postscript files of figures
On the Lower Bound for the Higgs Boson Mass
An Upper Bound on the Higgs Boson Mass from a Positivity Condition on the Mass Matrix
Z-Decays to b Quarks and the Higgs Boson Mass
