Top quark production and decay at next-to-leading order in {ital e}{sup +}{ital e}{sup {minus}} annihilation
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 (United States)
We study the effects of QCD corrections to the process {ital e}{sup +}{ital e}{sup {minus}}{r_arrow}{ital t{bar t}}+{ital X}{r_arrow}{ital bW{sup +}{bar b}W{sup {minus}}}+{ital X} above threshold. We show how to treat consistently to {ital O}({alpha}{sub {ital s}}) the gluon radiation in both the production and the decay of the top quarks, while maintaining all angular correlations in the event. At this order there is an ambiguity in the event reconstruction whenever a real gluon occurs in the final state. We study the effects of this ambiguity on the top quark mass and helicity angle distributions. For a top quark mass of 175 GeV and collider energy of 400 GeV the gluon radiation is emitted predominantly in the decay of the top quarks. {copyright} {ital 1996 The American Physical Society.}
- OSTI ID:
- 383380
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review, D, Journal Name: Physical Review, D Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 54; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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