Six-quark decays of off-shell WW pairs via parton-level QCD in electron-positron annihilations

Abstract

We study the decays into six quarks of off-shell pairs of W bosons produced in electron-positron annihilations, through the O(as^2) order in the strong coupling constant. We give explicit helicity amplitude formulae. We present numerical results in the context of phenomenological analyses of relevance at LEP2 and future Linear Colliders: such as MW determinations, New Physics and Higgs searches.

Comments: 33 pages, latex, 12 figures