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One-loop QCD mass effects in the production of polarized bottom and top quarks

1994; Springer Nature; Volume: 63; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/bf01557623

1431-5858

J. G. Körner, Apostolos Pilaftsis, Michael M. Tung,

High-Energy Particle Collisions Research

The analytic expressions for the production cross sections of polarized bottom and top quarks in $e^+e^-$ annihilation are explicitly derived at the one-loop order of strong interactions. Chirality-violating mass effects will reduce the longitudinal spin polarization for the light quark pairs by an amount of $3\%$, when one properly considers the massless limit for the final quarks. Numerical estimates of longitudinal spin polarization effects in the processes $e^+e^-\to b\bar{b}(g)$ and $e^+e^- \to t\bar{t}(g)$ are presented.