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Gluon Radiation in Top Quark Production and Decay at e+e- Colliders

Cosmin Macesanu, Lynne H. Orr

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0012177

Abstract

We study gluon radiation in top quark production above threshold at high energy e+e- colliders. We allow for the top quarks to be off-shell, considering radiation in both the top production and decay processes simultaneously. Our calculation includes all top width effects, spin correlations, and b quark mass effects. We study the effects of gluon radiation on top mass reconstuction and examine the interference between production- and decay-stage radiation, which can be sensitive to the value of the top quark decay width.

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