Semi-Analytical Approach to Four-Fermion Production in $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ Annihilation

Abstract

A study of the semi-analytical approach to four-fermion production in $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ annihilation is presented. We classify all possible four-fermion final states and present results of new calculations for the `basic' processes with the $WW,ZZ$, and $ZH$ off-shell production together with some examples of `background' processes. The Initial State Radiative corrections are included for the basic processes. Several numerical examples are given in the energy range from LEP2 up to $\sqrt{s}=1$ TeV.

Comments: 15 pages (LaTeX), 3 figures (not included, a uuencoded file containing the LaTeX and all ps files is available via anonymous ftp from convex.ifh.de as /pub/preprint/desy94-093.uu), CERN-TH.7295/94, DESY 94-093