Ebook: Radiative Corrections: Results and Perspectives

The Workshop on Radiative Corrections: Results and Perspectives was held at the University of Sussex in fine weather between July 9 and 14 1989. The Workshop was weIl timed: the day after its concluding session the first beam at LEP was circulated. The Original aims of the Workshop were twofold: first to review the existing theoretical work on electroweak radiative corrections in the light of the initial experiments at SLC and LEP, and to attempt to obtain a consensus on the best means of carrying out the calculations of the various processes. This aim became Working Group A on Renormalisation Schemes tor Electroweak Radiative Corrections. The second aim was to review the experimental implementation of radiative corrections and this became Working Group B. Here the problem was to obtain a consensus on the use of Monte Carlo event generators. At the time (March 1987) when Friedrich Dydak wrote to one of us (ND) to suggest a Workshop on the subject of electroweak radiative corrections to take place just before experiments at LEP were to begin, the main theoretical problem was that there was no agreement among theorists on the use of a specific renormalization scheme. Similarly, it was already becoming clear that it was going to be very difficult to compare the experimental results of different groups because they would use different event generators and experimental cuts of their data.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
The Importance of Radiative Corrections....Pages 1-8
The Z Line Shape....Pages 9-34
Implications on the Electroweak Parameters of a Precise Measurement of the Z Mass....Pages 35-50
Results on R from PEP, PETRA, TRISTAN, and SLC....Pages 51-74
The SLD Detector and the Polarization Project at SLC....Pages 75-87
Multiple Soft Photon Bremsstrahlung on the Z Resonance....Pages 89-106
High Precision Measurement of the Total Z0 Width Using Large Angle e+e- Events....Pages 107-120
Renormalization Schemes: Where do We Stand?....Pages 121-139
EWRC at TRISTAN....Pages 141-153
Electroweak Radiative Corrections at the Z Peak....Pages 155-168
Renormalization Scheme Dependence of Electroweak Radiative Corrections....Pages 169-184
Light Quark Loops....Pages 185-200
One-Loop Flavour-Changing Neutral Currents in the Standard Model....Pages 201-207
Generalized Radiative Corrections for Hadronic Targets....Pages 209-223
Report on Working Group A: Renormalization Schemes for Electroweak Radiative Corrections....Pages 225-231
Radiative Corrections — An Experimentalist’s View....Pages 233-243
The DYMU2 Event Generator....Pages 245-270
Structure Functions Approach to Electroweak Radiative Corrections....Pages 271-287
Coherent States and Structure Functions in QED....Pages 289-299
A Multiphoton QED Generator....Pages 301-309
Exclusive Exponentiation in the Monte Carlo Yennie-Frautschi-Suura Approach....Pages 311-323
On the Treatment of E.W.R.C. in M.C. Event Generators for LEP....Pages 325-340
FPAIR, An Event Generator for Fermion Pair Production at LEP/SLC Energies....Pages 341-364
Review of the Session on Event Generators....Pages 365-369
QCD and Precision Tests of Electroweak Interactions....Pages 371-392
QCD Corrections to Higgs Decay and Production at LEPI/SLC....Pages 393-406
Electroweak Radiative Corrections in Deep Inelastic Electron Proton Scattering....Pages 407-413
The Large Coefficient Problem: Can We Make Sense Out of QCD Perturbation Theory?....Pages 415-437
Summary of Working Group C: Interplay of QCD and Electroweak Corrections....Pages 439-458
Radiative Corrections to WW Scattering in the Standard Model....Pages 459-466
New Physics as a Background to Precision Measurements of Standard Model Radiative Corrections....Pages 467-485
Radiative Corrections and Composite Weak Vector Bosons at LEP100/SLC Energies....Pages 487-505
Summary and Concluding Remarks....Pages 507-520
Back Matter....Pages 521-532
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