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


The underlying calculation and detailed results are described in detail in the following 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,
        Eur.Phys.J. C20 (2001) 201 (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).

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