offshell

English

Alternative forms

• off-shell

Adjective

offshell (not comparable)

1. (mathematics, physics) That does not conform to classical physics.
   • 2015, Stefan Liebler, Gudrid Moortgat-Pick, Andrew S. Papanastasiou, “Probing the top-quark width through ratios of resonance contributions of $e^{+}e^{-}\rightarrow W^{+}W^{-}b{\bar {b}}$”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     Working at next-to-leading order in QCD we show that carefully selected ratios of offshell regions to onshell regions in the reconstructed top and antitop invariant mass spectra are, \emph{independently} of the coupling $g_{tbW}$, sensitive to the top-quark width.