SHERPA 1.α, a proof-of-concept version

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Gleisberg, Tanju ^a   Höche, Stefan ^a   Krauss, Frank ^a,b   Schälicke, Andreas ^a   Schumann, Steffen ^a   Winter, Jan Christopher ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; LEP HERA and SLC Physics; Phenomenological Models; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044460411     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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