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Four Fermions Productions at a $\gamma\gamma$ Collider

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

Using the recently proposed ALPHA algorithm (and the resulting code) I compute the rate (at tree level) for the process γγνˉeeudˉ\gamma\gamma\rightarrow\bar\nu_e e^- u \bar d. The bulk of the contribution is due to W pair production and decay. However a non negligible (10%\sim10 \%) contribution comes from other channels, mainly the production and decay of a W and a collinear charged fermion. Requiring that the reconstructed invariant udˉu \bar d mass lies in the intervals MW±5M_W\pm 5 GeV and MW±20M_W\pm 20 GeV one obtains a rate which is lower, by 25 \% and 4 \% respectively, than the rate obtained in the narrownarrow widthwidth approximation, thus demonstrating the relevance of the finite W width.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9604303,
  title  = {Four Fermions Productions at a $\gamma\gamma$ Collider},
  author = {M. Moretti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9604303},
  year   = {2009}
}

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