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We study the non-factorizable corrections to W-pair-mediated four-fermion production in ee annihilation in double-pole approximation. We show how these corrections can be combined with the known corrections to the production and the decay…
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 structure of the double-pole approximation for the O(alpha) corrections to e^+e^- -> WW -> 4 fermions is described, and some results are presented. Moreover, results on full tree-level predictions for $e^+e^- -> WW -> 4 fermions + gamma…
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…
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…
After 10 years of steadily increasing the experimental precision at LEP/SLC, there is a strong demand on an update of existing programs for fermion pair production. We present a rederivation of the O(alpha) Bremsstrahlung corrections to…
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.
In this paper we study the non-factorizable QED corrections to W-pair-mediated (charged-current) four-fermion production in electron-positron collisions. A brief account of the obtained analytical results is given. They turn out to be…
The relevance of radiative corrections to 4f production at LEP2 and future e+e- colliders is emphasized, and their treatment in the event generator RacoonWW is briefly discussed. In particular, the non-universal corrections are compared…
The radiative corrections of the strong and electroweak interactions are calculated for the Higgs-boson decays H -> WW/ZZ -> 4f with semileptonic or hadronic four-fermion final states in next-to-leading order. This calculation is improved…
Possible oblique effects from vector particles that are strongly coupled to the known gauge bosons are calculated for the case of final hadronic states produced at future $e^+e^-$ colliders, using a formalism that was recently proposed and…
The results on e+e- --> W+W- --> 4f(+gamma) obtained by different groups are compared with each other. Differences in the results for the total cross section of up to about 0.6% are traced back to different ways of implementing the…
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…
In this dissertation, a complete calculation of QED radiative corrections is presented for total cross sections and forward- backward asymmetries for s-channel fermion pair production in e+e- annihilation with kinematical cuts to the final…
The past ten years of physics with e+e- colliding experiments at LEP and SLAC have shown the success of these experiments on not only impressively proving the theoretical predictions of the Standard Model (SM), but also to help provide…
QCD one-loop corrections to the full gauge invariant set of electroweak diagrams describing the hadronic process $e^+ e^- \to u~\bar d~s~\bar c$ are computed. Four-jet shape variables for $WW$ events are studied at next-to-leading order and…
We present precision calculations of the processes e+ e- -> 4-fermions in which the double resonant W+ W- and ZZ intermediate states occur. Referring to these latter intermediate states as the 'signal processes', we show that, by using the…
Electroweak processes with four fermions in the final state were measured extensively at LEP-2 in e+e- collisions with centre-of-mass energies up to 209 GeV. By combining the results obtained by Aleph, Delphi, L3 and Opal, the predictions…
We calculate the standard model predictions for top quark pair production and decay into six fermions at a linear e+ e- collider. We include the factorizable electroweak O(alpha) corrections in the pole approximation and QED corrections due…
We calculate the process $\gamma \gamma \rightarrow e^- \bar{\nu}_e u \bar{d}$ with the full set of Feynman diagrams. We consider different implementations of the $W$ width and different combinations of the photon polarisations. The results…