Complete initial state QED corrections to off-shell gauge boson pair production in e+ e- annihilation

Feb, 1996
65 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 477 (1996) 27-58
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Report number:
  • DESY-96-028

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Abstract:
We study Standard Model four-fermion production in e+ e- annihilation at LEP2 energies and above using a semi-analytical approach. We derive the complete QED initial state corrections (ISR) to the reactions e+e- -> ZZ -> f1f1ˉf2f2ˉf_1\bar{f_1}f_2\bar{f_2} and e+e- -> W+W- -> fˉ1 uf1 df2 ufˉ2 d{\bar f}_1~u f_1~d f_2~u {\bar f}_2~d with f1f2f_1\neq f_2and fie ±,νef_i \neq e~\pm, \nu_e. As compared to the well-known universal s-channel ISR, additional complexity arises due to non-universal, process-dependent ISR contributions from t- and u-channel fermion exchanges. The full set of formulae needed to perform numerical calculations is given together with samples of numerical results.
Note:
  • 12.15.Lk
  • 13.40.Ks
  • 14.70.-3
  • Heavy gauge-boson production
  • Electromagnetic corrections
  • e + e − annihilation
  • Four-fermion production
  • e+e− annihilation
  • electron positron: annihilation
  • annihilation: electron positron