| Electroweak Interactions | p. 1 |
| Gauge Invariance and Formulation of the Theory | p. 2 |
| Parameters of the Theory | p. 4 |
| Radiative Corrections | p. 6 |
| Beyond the Standard Model | p. 9 |
| References | p. 11 |
| The Accelerators SLC and LEP | p. 13 |
| The Stanford Linear Collider SLC | p. 13 |
| The Large Electron Positron Collider LEP | p. 15 |
| Calibration of the LEP Beam Energy | p. 16 |
| Detectors at Electron-Positron Colliders | p. 19 |
| Luminosity Measurement | p. 24 |
| References | p. 25 |
| Electroweak Measurements on the Z Resonance | p. 27 |
| Fermion-Pair Production in e[superscript +]e[superscript -] Collisions | p. 27 |
| Measurement of the Z Lineshape | p. 30 |
| Forward-Backward Asymmetries | p. 32 |
| Tau Polarisation | p. 34 |
| Left-Right Asymmetry | p. 34 |
| Determination of the Effective Weak Mixing Angle | p. 35 |
| Effective Couplings and Weak Radiative Corrections | p. 36 |
| References | p. 37 |
| Electroweak Physics Above the Z Resonance | p. 39 |
| Fermion-Pair Production Above the Z Resonance | p. 41 |
| Production of Electroweak Gauge Bosons | p. 45 |
| Compton Scattering | p. 45 |
| Single-Z Production | p. 47 |
| Single-W Production | p. 49 |
| Photon Production | p. 51 |
| Z-pair Production | p. 54 |
| Measurement of Z[gamma] Production | p. 56 |
| Neutrino-Pair Production in Z[gamma] Events | p. 56 |
| Reconstruction of the Z Resonance with Z[gamma] Events | p. 58 |
| Extraction of the Z Mass from the Mass Spectrum | p. 60 |
| Cross Check of the LEP Energy Calibration | p. 63 |
| References | p. 64 |
| W-Boson Pair Production | p. 67 |
| Simulation of Four-Fermion Production | p. 69 |
| Hadronisation Models | p. 72 |
| Colour Reconnection in the qqqq Channel | p. 73 |
| Bose-Einstein Correlations in the qqqq Channel | p. 78 |
| Selection of W-Boson Pairs | p. 84 |
| Selection of Fully-Leptonic Events | p. 84 |
| Selection of Semi-Leptonic Events | p. 84 |
| Selection of Fully-Hadronic Events | p. 86 |
| Measurement of the W-Pair Cross Section | p. 88 |
| Measurement of W-Boson Polarisation | p. 89 |
| Triple Gauge Boson Couplings | p. 90 |
| References | p. 96 |
| Measurement of the W Mass at LEP | p. 99 |
| The W Mass from the Threshold Cross Section | p. 100 |
| Measurement of the W Mass Using the Lepton Energy | p. 102 |
| Direct Reconstruction of the Invariant-Mass Spectrum | p. 103 |
| Identification of the Final State Fermions | p. 104 |
| Kinematic Fit | p. 104 |
| Jet Pairing in Fully-Hadronic Events | p. 108 |
| Photon and Gluon Radiation | p. 110 |
| Extraction of the W Mass | p. 111 |
| Monte-Carlo Re-Weighting and Binned Likelihood Fit | p. 113 |
| Monte-Carlo Re-Weighting and Box Fit | p. 113 |
| Event Likelihood from a Convolution Function | p. 115 |
| Fit of an Analytic Breit-Wigner Function | p. 116 |
| Systematic Uncertainties | p. 116 |
| Four-Fermion Generation and Photon Radiation | p. 117 |
| Hadronisation | p. 118 |
| Colour Reconnection | p. 120 |
| Bose-Einstein Effects | p. 124 |
| Detector Effects | p. 124 |
| LEP Beam Energy | p. 128 |
| Correlations | p. 129 |
| Results for W Mass and Width | p. 130 |
| References | p. 132 |
| Fit of Electroweak Parameters to Precision Data | p. 133 |
| Direct W-Mass Measurement Facing Precision Data | p. 133 |
| Global Fit to Electroweak Data | p. 135 |
| Higgs Mass Prediction | p. 138 |
| Search for the Standard Model Higgs at LEP | p. 140 |
| References | p. 144 |
| Electroweak Physics at an e[superscript +]e[superscript -] Linear Collider | p. 145 |
| The Physics Potential of an e[superscript +]e[superscript -] Linear Colhder | p. 146 |
| Electroweak Gauge Bosons | p. 147 |
| Precision Measurement of the Top Mass | p. 149 |
| Higgs Mass and Couplings | p. 152 |
| Complementarity of a Linear Collider and the LHC | p. 158 |
| The International Linear Collider ILC | p. 159 |
| Detector Development for the ILC | p. 162 |
| References | p. 167 |
| Summary and Conclusions | p. 169 |
| Index | p. 171 |
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