Improved description of charged Higgs boson production at hadron colliders

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1119-1138

  Alwall, Johan ^a   Rathsman, Johan ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; Higgs Physics; Phenomenological Models; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444438391     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/12/050     Document Type: Article

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