QCD Interconnection Effects

Abstract

Heavy objects like the W, Z and t are short-lived compared with typical hadronization times. When pairs of such particles are produced, the subsequent hadronic decay systems may therefore become interconnected. We study such potential effects at Linear Collider energies.

1+7 pages, 6 eps figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the Workshop on the development of future linear electron-positron colliders for particle physics studies and for research using free electon lasers, Lund, Sweden, 23-26 September 1999