Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1996-10-29
Acta Phys.Polon. B28 (1997) 619-633
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
19 pages, latex, 5 postscript figures included, talk given at the 3rd International Symposium on Radiative Corrections, Cracow
Scientific paper
The most interesting theoretical features of W-pair production in e+e- collisions are reviewed. Based on an analysis of on-shell W-pairs, it is shown that the mere inclusion of leading $O(\alpha)$ corrections--such as initial-state radiation, effects from the universal quantities $\Delta\alpha$ and $\Delta r$, and the Coulomb singularity--cannot be expected to approximate the $O(\alpha)$-corrected cross-section of $e^+e^-\to W^+W^-\to 4f$ to better than 1-2% for LEP2 energies. The importance of the gauge-invariance problem, arising from the introduction of finite decay widths, is discussed. The simplest consistent method to include $O(\alpha)$ corrections at least to the doubly resonant contributions, viz. a pole expansion around the double resonance, is also briefly described.
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