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Gauge-Boson Production in Electron-Photon Collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-02-03 v2

Abstract

We summarize results for the processes eγνW,eZ,eγe^-\gamma \to \nu W^-, e^-Z, e^-\gamma within the electroweak Standard Model. We discuss the essential features of the corresponding lowest-order cross-sections and present numerical results for the unpolarized cross-sections including the complete O(α)O(\alpha) virtual, soft-photonic, and hard-photonic corrections. While at low energies the weak corrections are dominated by the leading universal corrections, at high energies we find large, non-universal corrections, which arise from vertex and box diagrams involving non-Abelian gauge couplings.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9308360,
  title  = {Gauge-Boson Production in Electron-Photon Collisions},
  author = {A. Denner and S. Dittmaier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9308360},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

7 pages + 5 figures appended as ps-files (uuencoded), latex, CERN-TH. 6980/93