Eur. Phys. J. C (2006) 46: 357-365
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s2006-02477-x

Theoretical Physics

Factorizable electroweak corrections for top quark pair production and decay at a linear collider

¹ Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, ul. Uniwersytecka 4, 40007, Katowice, Poland
² Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Platanenallee 6, 15738, Zeuthen, Germany

^* e-mail: kolodzie@us.edu.pl

Received: 17 October 2005
Revised: 19 December 2005
Published online: 24 March 2006

Abstract

We calculate the standard model predictions for top quark pair production and decay into six fermions at a linear e⁺e^- collider. We include the factorizable electroweak corrections in the pole approximation and QED corrections due to the initial state radiation in the structure function approach. The effects of the radiative corrections on the predictions are illustrated by showing numerical results for two selected six-fermion reactions and .