Finite temperature radiative corrections to neutron decay and related processes

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Errata

D.R.T. Jones and J.P. Leveille, Dimensional regularization and the two-loop axial anomaly in abelian, non-abelian and supersymmetric gauge theories, Nucl. Phys. B206 (1982) 473. Appendix A relates to the derivation of eq. (3.7) not eq. (3.5). Eq. (A.4) should read 1

1-x

dx

dy{(n+2)J2O~-½(p°~-p2-2Q )Q J l - g n ( p l - p 2 ) J 2 } = 0 .

The expressions for I and J given at the end of appendix B should read i=

~"2F ( 2 - ~1n )1B ( ~ n - l , ~1n - 1 ) = 1 r 2[ 2

4--n

J='rr

2 F ( 4 - n) B ( n _ 3 , ! n

F ( 3 - ~1n )

2

--

i)=¢r2[1 4 -1n

--yE+2+O(n--4) ] ,

,

3

--~yE+~+O(n

--4)

].

The calculations in the main part of the paper are based on the above (correct) formulae and remain unchanged.

Jean-Luc Cambier, Joel R. Primack and Marc Sher, Finite temperature radiative corrections to neutron decay and related processes, Nucl. Phys. B209 (1982) 372. There are two typographical errors on page 377; a factor of 2 was omitted on the right-hand side of eq. (lb), and the 2nd term of -~2 should read:

2ct

k2F(E) ~

dk~(1

, ~ + m 2 In A pot~ 4kp'

p~E_m 2 In B } 4kp' "