Next-to-leading corrections to the Higgs boson transverse momentum spectrum in gluon fusion

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 319-358

  Glosser, Christopher J ^a   Schmidt, Carl R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; Higgs Physics; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044491516     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/12/016     Document Type: Article

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