W-boson pair production at lepton colliders in the Feynman-diagram gauge

We calculate helicity amplitudes for e-e & thorn;-* W-W & thorn; analytically in the Feynman-diagram (FD) gauge. We show that, unlike in the unitary gauge, there is no energy growth of the individual Feynman amplitudes for the longitudinally polarized W bosons, and the contributions from the associated Goldstone bosons are manifest even without taking the high-energy limit. We also find that the physical distributions can be interpreted by the individual amplitudes in the FD gauge.