Four-fermion production at LEP2 and NLC

Abstract

The present knowledge on four-fermion production in electron-positron collisions is reviewed, with emphasis on W boson physics. Different methods to extract M_W from the data are presented and the role of QCD loop corrections discussed.

Comments: 7 pages, talk given at International Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics (HEP 97), Jerusalem, Israel, 19-26 Aug. 1997