$e^{+}{e}^{-}\to b\bar{b}u\bar{d}{\mu }^{-}{\bar{\nu }}_{\mu }$ with a $t\bar{t}$ production

Abstract

The cross section of $e^{+}{e}^{-}\to b\bar{b}u\bar{d}{\mu }^{-}{\bar{\nu }}_{\mu }$ process with a complete set of tree diagrams, 232 diagrams in the unitary gauge, was calculated at the energy range of $\sqrt{s}$ = 340 - 500 GeV by using GRACE system. A main contribution to the cross section comes from $t\bar{t}$ production, where $t$ and $\bar{t}$ decay into $bu\bar{d}$ and $\bar{b}{\mu }^{-}{\bar{\nu }}_{\mu }$, respectively. It was found that the interference between the diagrams with $t\bar{t}$ production and those with single-$t$ through $WW$ pair production amounts to 10% at the $t\bar{t}$ threshold energy region. In the energy region above twice of the top quark mass, more than 95% of the cross section comes from the $t\bar{t}$ diagrams.

Comments: 17 pages, 8 PostScript figures, LateX; To appear in Phys. Lett. B