Radiative four–fermion processes at LEP2
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چکیده
The production of four fermions plus a visible photon in electron-positron collisions is analyzed in the LEP2 energy range. The study is based on the calculation of exact matrix elements, including the effect of fermion masses. In the light of the present measurements performed at LEP, triple and quartic anomalous gauge couplings are taken into account. Due to the presence of a visible photon in the final state, particular attention is paid to the treatment of higher-order QED corrections. Explicit results for integrated cross sections and differential distributions are shown and commented. The features of the Monte Carlo program WRAP, used to perform the calculation and available for experimental analysis, are described. PACS: 12.15.Ji,13.85.Hd
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