Monte Carlo program KoralW 1.42 for all four-fermion final states in e+e- collisions

被引:102
作者
Jadach, S [1 ]
Placzek, W
Skrzypek, M
Ward, BFL
Was, Z
机构
[1] CERN, Div Theory, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[2] Inst Nucl Phys, PL-30055 Krakow, Poland
[3] Univ Tennessee, Dept Phys & Astron, Knoxville, TN 37996 USA
[4] Stanford Univ, Stanford Linear Accelerator Ctr, Stanford, CA 94309 USA
[5] Jagiellonian Univ, Inst Comp Sci, Krakow, Poland
关键词
radiative corrections; initial-state radiation (ISR); leading-logarithms (LL) approximation; heavy boson W; 4-fermion processes; Monte Carlo (MC) simulation/generation; quantum electrodynamics (QED); quantum chromodynamics (QCD); Yennie-Frautschi-Suura (YFS) exponentiation; standard model (SM); LEP2;
D O I
10.1016/S0010-4655(99)00219-2
中图分类号
TP39 [计算机的应用];
学科分类号
081203 ; 0835 ;
摘要
The Monte Carlo program KoralW version 1.42 is presented, It generates all four-fermion final states with multibranch dedicated Monte Carlo presamplers and complete, massive, Born matrix elements, The presamplers cover the entire phase space. Multiphoton bremsstrahlung is implemented in the ISR approximation within the YFS formulation with the O(alpha(3)) leading-log matrix element. The anomalous WWV couplings are implemented in CC03 approximation. The standard decay libraries (JETSET, PHOTOS, TAUOLA) are interfaced. The semi-analytical CC03-type code KorWan for differential and total cross sections is included. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:272 / 311
页数:40
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