Top Production and Decay at Linear Colliders: QCD Corrections

Abstract

We present the results of an exact calculation of gluon radiation in top production and decay at high energy electron-positron colliders. We include all spin correlations and interferences, the bottom quark mass, and finite top width effects in the matrix element calculation. We study properties of the radiated gluons and implications for top mass measurement. We also discuss virtual corrections to the process.

Comments: 3 pages including 2 figures, Latex, talk presented at the 2000 Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields of the APS, Columbus, OH, August 9--12, 2000