Effective K-factors for gg → H → WW → ℓνℓν at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 175-190

  Davatz, Giovanna ^a   Dissertori, Guenther ^a   Dittmar, Michael ^a   Pauss, Felicitas ^a   Grazzini, Massimiliano ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; Higgs Physics; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044473635     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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