Erratum: Leptonic Decay of the ϒ(1S) Meson at Third Order in QCD [Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 151801 (2014)].

This corrects the article DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.

Enhanced Electromagnetic Corrections to the Rare Decay B_{s,d}→μ^{+}μ^{-}.

We investigate electromagnetic corrections to the rare B-meson leptonic decay B_{s,d}→μ^{+}μ^{-} from scales below the bottom-quark mass m_{b}. Contrary to QCD effects, which are entirely contained in the B-meson decay constant, we find that virtual photon exchange can probe the B-meson structure, resulting in a "nonlocal annihilation" effect. We find that this effect gives rise to a dynamical enhancement by a power of m_{b}/Λ_{QCD} and by large logarithms.

Next-to-Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order QCD Prediction for the Top Antitop S-Wave Pair Production Cross Section Near Threshold in e(+)e(-) Annihilation.

We present the third-order QCD prediction for the production of top antitop quark pairs in electron-positron collisions close to the threshold in the dominant S-wave state. We observe a significant reduction of the theoretical uncertainty and discuss the sensitivity to the top quark mass and width.

Leptonic decay of the ϒ(1S) meson at third order in QCD.

We present the complete next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order short-distance and bound-state QCD correction to the leptonic decay rate Γ(ϒ(1S)→ℓ+ℓ-) of the lowest-lying spin-1 bottomonium state. The perturbative QCD prediction is compared to the measurement Γ(ϒ(1S)→e+e-)=1.340(18)  keV.