Lepton correlations in gauge-boson pair production and decay

1 February 1986

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D

Vol. 33 (3), 665-671
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.33.665

Abstract

We present amplitude and cross-section formulas for fermion-antifermion annihilation to on-shell WW, WZ, ZZ, Wγ, and Zγ pairs in which the W and Z gauge bosons subsequently decay into fermion-antifermion pairs. The expressions include full spin-density-matrix correlations. This exact treatment yields fermion correlations that differ significantly from those obtained using W/Z-polarization-averaged cross sections followed by uncorrelated decay.

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