Matching NLO QCD and parton showers in heavy flavour production

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 153-215

  Frixione, Stefane ^a   Nason, Paolo ^b   Webber, Bryan R ^c,d  

^a INFN SEZIONE DI GENOVA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; NLO Computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 22144455531     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/08/007     Document Type: Article

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