MadEvent: Automatic event generation with MadGraph

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 577-586

  Maltoni, Fabio ^a   Stelzer, Tim ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; QCD; Standard Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044503739     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/02/027     Document Type: Article

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