Direct Higgs production and jet veto at the Tevatron and the LHC in NNLO QCD

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 293-316

  Catani, Stefano ^a,d   De Florian, Daniel ^b   Grazzini, Massimiliano ^c,d  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; Higgs Physics; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044506604     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/01/015     Document Type: Article

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