How accurately can we measure the W cross section?

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1281-1297

  Frixione, Stefano ^a   Mangano, Michelangelo L ^b,c  

^a INFN SEZIONE DI GENOVA   (Italy)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; NLO Computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444436819     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/05/056     Document Type: Article

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