Heavy Quark Production at $e^+ e^-$ Colliders in Multijet Events and a New Method of Computing Helicity Amplitudes

TL;DR

This paper investigates heavy quark production in multijet events at electron-positron colliders, providing total production rates, comparing them to massless quark results, and introducing a new helicity amplitude computation method.

Contribution

It introduces a novel method for computing helicity amplitudes and applies it to heavy quark production in multijet events at $e^+e^-$ colliders.

Findings

Total production rates for heavy quarks are calculated and compared to massless quark results.

A new computational method for helicity amplitudes is proposed.

Results facilitate better understanding of heavy quark dynamics in collider experiments.

Abstract

Heavy quark production in multijet events at $e^+e^-$ colliders is studied at tree level. Total production rates are given and compared with the corresponding results for massless quarks. A new method of computing helicity amplitudes is briefly sketched. Talk presented at the XXIXth Rencontres de Moriond, QCD and High Energy Hadronic Interactions, Meribel, France, March 19-26 1994.