The tt̄ cross-section at 1.8 and 1.96TeV: A study of the systematics due to parton densities and scale dependence

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1527-1537

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

^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

Hadronic Colliders; Heavy Quarks Physics; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044500025     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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