Heavy quark and prompt lepton production by beamstrahlung in e+e- linear colliders

F. Halzen; C. S. Kim; M. L. Stong

doi:10.1016/0370-2693(92)92021-8

Heavy quark and prompt lepton production by beamstrahlung in e⁺e^- linear colliders

F. Halzen, C. S. Kim, M. L. Stong

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Abstract

In TeV e⁺e^- collisions top quarks are predominantly produced by beamstrahlung and not by the familiar γ, Z annihilation process. The same mechanism will create inside the interaction region a blizzard of c-, b-quarks, as well as leptons from their semi-leptonic decays. The phenomenon makes a linear collider resemble a hadron collider and must be considered as a background in any processes exploiting leptonic signatures.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	489-491
Number of pages	3
Journal	Physics Letters B
Volume	274
Issue number	3-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(92)92021-8
Publication status	Published - 1992 Jan 16

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We thank Dieter Zeppenfeld and Manuel Drees for enlightening discussions. This work is supported in part by the US Department of Energy under contract No. DE-AC02-76ER00881, in part by the Texas National Research Laboratory Commission under grant No. RGFY9173, and in part by the University of Wisconsin Research Committee with funds granted by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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