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Top quark production at hadron colliders: Some useful formulae

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Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields

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We present compact expressions for the amplitudes describing production and decay of heavy top-anti-top quark pairs in hadron-hadron collisions. We include both the effects of a finite width of the W particles in the top quark decay and those of a non-zerob quark mass, as well as the complete spin correlations in the decays. Also a very compact analytical result for the width of the top quark including all these effects is given.

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  1. Instituut-Lorentz, University of Leiden, 23115B, Leiden, The Netherlands

    R. Kleiss

  2. Physics Department, University of Durham, DH1 3LE, Durham, England

    W. J. Stirling

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Kleiss, R., Stirling, W.J. Top quark production at hadron colliders: Some useful formulae. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 40, 419–423 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01548856

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