Related papers: Four fermion production in e+ e- annihilation
The status of four and six fermion event generators for Standard Model processes at present and future e^+e^- colliders is briefly reviewed.
The implementation of QED initial-state radiative corrections in the process of four-fermion production at LEP200 and higher-energy e+e- colliders is discussed. Because of the presence of charged-current processes, this is a nontrivial…
A study of the semi-analytical approach to four-fermion production in $e^+ e^-$ annihilation is presented. We classify all possible four-fermion final states and present results of new calculations for the `basic' processes with the…
This paper studies the electroweak production of all possible four fermion states in e+ e- collisions. Since the methods employed to evaluate the complete matrix elements and phase space are very general, all four fermion final states in…
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 ->…
In this paper I investigate the production of four quarks at LEP 200 energies. Effects due to initial state QED corrections and background diagrams, including QCD contributions, are studied and examples of results obtained with an event…
The status of predictions for four-fermion production at e-e+ colliders is reviewed with an emphasis on the developments after the LEP2 era and an outlook to the challenges posed by the precision program at future colliders.
The measurements of four-fermion production rates performed at LEP2 in e+e- collisions at centre-of-mass energies ranging from 161 to 209 GeV are presented. The focus is put on processes that involve the production and decay of W or Z…
The various four-fermion production channels in $e^+ e^-$ annihilation are discussed and the {\tt CC11} process $e^+ e^- \rightarrow {\bar f}_1^u f_1^d f^u_2 {\bar f}_2^d$, {\mbox{$f$$\neq$$e$}}, is studied in detail. The cross section…
We compute several total and differential cross sections relevant to top, WWZ and Higgs physics at future $e^+e^-$ colliders taking into account the full set of Feynman diagrams for six fermion final states. We examine in particular charged…
We compute several total and differential cross sections relevant to top and WWZ physics at future $e^+e^-$ colliders taking into account the full set of Feynman diagrams for six fermion final states. We also include in our calculations…
The present status of calculations of four fermion final states is reviewed. Higher order problems arising there are pointed out. Special attention is paid to results obtained in the semi-analytical approach and their limitations and…
The status of precision calculations for the processes e+e- --> WW --> 4 fermions is reviewed, paying particular attention to questions of gauge invariance and recent progress concerning photonic radiative corrections.
The relevance of fermion loop corrections to four fermion processes at e+ e- colliders is reviewed with regard to the recent extension to the case of massive external particles and its application to single-W processes.
We accomplish our efforts to obtain predictions for all four-fermion final states of e+ e- annihilation and the corresponding bremsstrahlung reactions which are possible in the framework of the Standard Model. For this purpose we have…
A Monte Carlo program is presented that computes all four fermion processes in $e^+ e^-$ annihilation. QED initial state corrections and QCD contributions are included. Fermions are taken to be massless, allowing a very fast evaluation of…
We study higgs physics at future $e^+e^-$ colliders taking into account the full set of Feynman diagrams for six fermion final states, which are produced for higgs masses near or above the two $W$'s threshold. In particular we examine…
Four-top production and top pair production in association with missing energy at e+e- colliders are sensitive probes of beyond-the-Standard-Model physics. We consider Standard Model (SM) extensions containing a new U(1)' which couples…
Cross sections, angular distributions and forward-backward asymmetries are presented, of two-fermion events produced in e+e- collisions at centre-of-mass energies from 189 to 209 GeV at LEP, measured with the ALEPH detector. Results for…
In the energy region of LEP2 and above, four fermion final states in e+e- collisions can be produced by Feynman diagrams involving two, one or zero resonant bosons...