The process gg → WW as a background to the Higgs signal at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1788-1811

  Dührssen, Michael ^a   Jakobs, Karl ^a   Van Der Bij, Jochum J ^a   Marquard, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; Higgs Physics; Standard Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444448443     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/05/064     Document Type: Article

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