QCD analysis of first b cross section data at 1.96 TeV

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 813-827

  Cacciari, Matteo ^a,b   Frixione, Stefano ^c   Mangano, Michelangelo L ^d   Nason, Paolo ^e   Ridolfi, Giovanni ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b LPTHE   (France)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI GENOVA   (Italy)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

^e INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

B Physics; Hadronic Colliders; NLO Computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044497392     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/07/033     Document Type: Article

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