RacoonWW

A Monte Carlo generator for 4-fermion production at e+e- colliders

Authors
Ansgar Denner PSI Villigen, Switzerland Ansgar.Denner@psi.ch
Stefan Dittmaier MPI Munich, Germany dittmair@mppmu.mpg.de
Markus Roth MPI Munich, Germany roth@mppmu.mpg.de
Doreen Wackeroth SUNY at Buffalo, USA dow@ubpheno.physics.buffalo.edu

RacoonWW provides

lowest-order predictions for

all processes e+e- -> 4 fermions
all processes e+e- -> 4 fermions + photon
radiative corrections to e+e- -> WW -> 4f including
the full electroweak O(alpha) corrections in double-pole approximation
higher-order leading-logarithmic initial-state radiation
complete off-shell Coulomb singularity
an Improved Born Approximation (IBA) with leading universal corrections

Downloads:

README
source code of RacoonWW1.3.1   (released on March 19, 2004)
link to the Pythia page

Publications:

RacoonWW 1.3 is described in detail in
[ 1 ]
RACOONWW 1.3: A Monte Carlo program for four-fermion production at e+ e- colliders,
Comput. Phys. Commun. 153 (2003) 462 (hep-ph/0209330).
The tree-level predictions and matrix elements for ee -> 4f (+ photon) are given in
[ 2 ]
Predictions for all processes e+e- -> 4 fermions + gamma,
Nucl. Phys. B560 (1999) 33 (hep-ph/9904472).
The implementation of the radiative corrections is described in
[ 3 ]
Electroweak radiative corrections to e+e- -> WW -> 4 fermions in double-pole approximation: the RacoonWW approach,
Nucl. Phys. B587 (2000) 67 (hep-ph/0006307).
The IBA for ee -> WW -> 4f is described in
[ 4 ]
Off-shell W-pair production -- universal versus non-univeral corrections,
contribution to the Proceedings of the "5th International Symposium on Radiative Corrections" RADCOR2000, Carmel, September 2000 (hep-ph/0101257).
The implementation of genuine anomalous quartic gauge-boson couplings and the IBA for ee -> 4f + photon are described in
[ 5 ]
Probing anomalous quartic gauge-boson couplings via e+e- -> 4 fermions + gamma,
hep-ph/0104057.
Additional numerical results have been published in
[ 6 ]
O(alpha) corrections to e+e- -> WW -> 4 fermions (+gamma): first numerical results from RacoonWW,
Phys. Lett. B475 (2000) 127 (hep-ph/9912261);
[ 7 ]
W-pair production at future e+e- colliders: precide predictions from RacoonWW,
EPJdirect Vol.2 C4 (2000) 1 (hep-ph/9912447).