Matching NLO QCD computations and parton shower simulations

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 617-680

  Frixione, Stefano ^a,c   Webber, Bryan R ^b  

^a Laboratoire d'Annecy le Vieux de Physique des Particules   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI GENOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; NLO Computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 22144455880     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/06/029     Document Type: Article

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