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The process e+e- to nu barnu + gamma with a distinctive ``photon-plus-missing-energy'' signal can serve as an important tool to search for new physics at LEP2. It can be exploited to measure the WW gamma coupling, or to search for weakly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 A. Jacholkowska , J. Kalinowski , Z. Was

Full O(alpha) electroweak corrections for gamma-gamma-> W+W- are calculated including virtual corrections, soft and hard real photon and Z-boson emission. The corrections are quite large ranging from -2.5% at 500 GeV to -18% at 2 TeV,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Jikia

The recently completed calculation of the full electroweak O(alpha) corrections to the charged-current four-fermion production processes e+e- --> nu_tau tau+ mu- anti-nu_mu, u anti-d mu- anti-nu_mu, and u anti-d s anti-c is briefly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Denner , S. Dittmaier , M. Roth , L. H. Wieders

We present the LL final state radiative effects for the exact O(alpha) YFS exponentiated (un)stable WW pair production at LEP2/NLC energies using Monte Carlo event generator methods. The respective event generator, version 1.12 of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 S. Jadach , W. Placzek , M. Skrzypek , B. F. L. Ward , Z. Was

The Monte Carlo program {\tt WWGENPV}, designed for computing distributions and generating events for the four-fermion process $e^+ e^- \to W^+ W^- \to 4f$, is described. It is based on the calculation of the exact tree-level matrix element…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 G. Montagna , O. Nicrosini , F. Piccinini

In view of the forthcoming experiments at high energy $e^+ e^-$ colliders, LEP2 and beyond, the process $e^+ e^- \to W^+ W^- \to 4f$ has been investigated for {\it off-shell} $W$'s. After deriving the matrix element for the process within…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 G. Montagna , O. Nicrosini , G. Passarino , F. Piccinini

Processes of electron-positron annihilation into charged pions and kaons are considered. Radiative corrections are taken into account exactly in the first order and within the leading logarithmic approximation in higher orders. A combined…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 A. B. Arbuzov , V. A. Astakhov , A. V. Fedorov , G. V. Fedotovich , E. A. Kuraev , N. P. Merenkov

The cross-section for W^+W^- \to W^+W^- with arbitrarily polarized W bosons is calculated within the Electroweak Standard Model including the complete virtual and soft-photonic O(alpha) corrections. We show the numerical importance of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Denner , T. Hahn

We review the status of theoretical predictions for W-pair production at high energies. We discuss a systematic scenario towards a Monte-Carlo generator for e^+e^- --> 4f(\gamma), which meets the experimental requirements. In particular we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Beenakker , A. Denner

Radiative Corrections to $W$ Pair Production and effects of finite width of the $W$ bosons are studied using the Monte Carlo {\tt WOPPER}. As an example the influence of QED radiative corrections on the reconstruction of the $W$ helicities…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Anlauf , H. Dahmen , A. Himmler , P. Manakos , T. Mannel

We present the Monte Carlo event generator {\tt WOPPER} for pair production of $W$'s and their decays at high energy $e^+e^-$ colliders. {\tt WOPPER} includes the effects from finite $W$ width and focusses on the calculation of higher order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 H. Anlauf , H. D. Dahmen , P. Manakos , T. Mannel , WOPPER

Recently, various cross sections of e+e- annihilation into hadrons were accurately measured in the energy range from 0.37 to 1.39 GeV with the CMD-2 detector at the VEPP-2M collider. In the pi+pi- channel a systematic uncertainty of 0.6%…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 A. B. Arbuzov , G. V. Fedotovich , F. V. Ignatov , E. A. Kuraev , A. L. Sibidanov

We have analysed the production of WW and WZ vector-boson pairs at the LHC. These processes give rise to four-fermion final states, and are particularly sensitive to possible non-standard trilinear gauge-boson couplings. We have studied the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Accomando , A. Kaiser

We present the full order alpha electroweak radiative corrections to e+e- -> e+e-H. The computation is performed with the help of GRACE-loop. The extraction of the full QED corrections is performed, these are quite large at threshold. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Boudjema , J. Fujimoto , T. Ishikawa , T. Kaneko , K. Kato , Y. Kurihara , Y. Shimizu , Y. Yasui

We have calculated the electroweak O(\alpha) corrections to the processes p p -> Z \gamma + X -> \nu_l \bar{\nu}_l \gamma + X, p p -> Z \gamma + X -> l \bar{l} \gamma + X, and p p -> W \gamma + X -> \nu_l \bar{l} \gamma + X at the LHC, with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 E. Accomando , A. Denner , C. Meier

We present and discuss the generator setup for e+e- -> 4f processes chosen by the DELPHI collaboration. The need to combine the most recent theoretical achievements in the CC03 sector with the state of the art description of the remaining…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Ballestrero , R. Chierici , F. Cossutti , E. Migliore

The complete electroweak O(alpha) corrections have been calculated for the charged-current four-fermion production processes e+e- --> nu_tau tau+ mu- anti-nu_mu, u anti-d mu- anti-nu_mu, and u anti-d s anti-c. Here, technical details of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-30 A. Denner , S. Dittmaier , M. Roth , L. H. Wieders

We present the recent developments in the precision studies of W-pair and single-W processes in e+e- collisions achieved with the help of the KoralW and YFSWW3 Monte Carlo generators. We focus on the theoretical precision of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Skrzypek , S. Jadach , W. Placzek , B. F. L. Ward , Z. Was

The complete matrix elements for e^+ e^- -> 4f and e^+ e^- -> 4f + gamma are calculated in the Electroweak Standard Model for polarized massless fermions. The matrix elements for all final states are reduced to a few compact generic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Denner , S. Dittmaier , M. Roth , D. Wackeroth

The electroweak $\mc O(\alpha)$ radiative corrections to the decay of the lightest MSSM Higgs boson to four leptons are presented, improved by the two-loop corrections provided by the program package FeynHiggs. We also analyze the results…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-01 Wolfgang Hollik , Jian-Hui Zhang