Related papers: Theoretical Predictions for W-Pair Production
We study single top production in high energy $e\gamma$ collisions. The process $e\gamma\to\nu b\bar t$ can serve as a unique tool for measuring the $Wtb$ coupling. We show that allowing for realistic luminosity and backgrounds, the size of…
The electron-positron pair production by an electron in a strong magnetic field near the process threshold is considered. The process is shown to be more probable if the spin of the initial electron is oriented along the field. In this…
The rate of $e^+e^-$ pair creation by external electric field in the presence of an incident photon beam is calculated for the photon energy far below the threshold, $\omega \ll m$, and the field strength small as compared to the critical…
Using the recently proposed ALPHA algorithm (and the resulting code) I compute the rate (at tree level) for the process $\gamma\gamma\rightarrow\bar\nu_e e^- u \bar d$. The bulk of the contribution is due to W pair production and decay.…
In this paper we examine the pair production through the Breit-Wheeler process $\gamma~\gamma \to e^+ e^-$ in a thermal background. We compute the thermal contribution to the Breit-Wheeler differential cross section within the thermofield…
The heavy ion total cross section for continuum e+ e- pair production has been calculated to all orders in Z alpha. The formula resulting from an exact solution of the semiclassical Dirac equation in the ultrarelativistic limit is evaluated…
Electron-positron pairs may be produced near accreting black holes by a variety of physical processes, and the resulting pair plasma may be accelerated and collimated into a relativistic jet. Here we use a self-consistent dynamical and…
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%…
In this paper, we review the current status of the phenomenological study of quarkonium production in high energy collisions. After a brief introduction of several important models and effective field theories for quarkonium production, we…
We present the calculation of gamma gamma -> 2e+e- process cross section. The construction are perfomed using both helicity amplitude method and method of precision covariant calculation. The magnitude of cross section is obtained by the…
At present paper we performed a detailed numerical analysis of four charged leptons photoproduction in frame of standard theory of electroweak interaction. Total and differential cross sections are obtained by using of the Monte-Carlo…
In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, the strong Lorentz-contracted electromagnetic fields are capable of producing copious numbers of lepton pairs through the two-photon mechanism. Monte Carlo techniques have been developed that allow the…
RACOONWW is an event generator for e+e- --> WW --> 4fermions(+gamma) that includes full tree-level predictions for e+e- --> 4f and e+e- --> 4f+gamma as well as O(alpha) corrections to e+e- --> 4f in the so-called double-pole approximation.…
We have studied the effects of the complete logarithmic electroweak O(alpha) corrections on the production of vector-boson pairs WZ, ZZ, and WW at the LHC. These corrections are implemented into a Monte Carlo program for pp -> 4f (+\gamma)…
We realize, by Monte Carlo event generator methods, the exact O}(\alpha)$ YFS exponentiated calculation of $e^+e^- \to W^+ W^- (\to f_1\bar f'_1 + \bar f_2 f'_2)$ at and beyond LEP2 energies, where the left-handed parts of $f_i$ and $f'_i$…
A Monte Carlo generator has been constructed to simulate the reaction e+ e- --> gamma + 2 pions and gamma + 4 pions, where the photon is assumed to be observed in the detector. Predictions are presented for cms energies of 1GeV, 3GeV and…
We present an update of the theoretical predictions for the cross section of top-quark pair production at Tevatron and LHC. In particular we employ improvements due to soft gluon resummation at next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy.…
We study the anomalous $W^+W^-\gamma$ couplings in performing the production of the W-pair through the process $e^- p\,\rightarrow\,e^-\gamma^*\gamma^* p\,\rightarrow\,e^-W^+W^-p$ at the Large Hadron electron Collider (LHeC) and the Future…
The $\gamma\gamma\to\pi\pi$ reactions are discussed. To describe those processes, we include dipion continuum, resonances, high-energy pion-pion rescatterings, $\rho$ meson exchange and pQCD Brodsky-Lepage mechanisms. The cross section for…
We present a new calculation of $W^+ W^-$ production in the semi-exclusive channel, that is either with intact outgoing protons or rapidity gaps present in the final state, and with no colour flow between the colliding protons. This study…