Soft-gluon resummation for Higgs boson production at hadron colliders

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 649-694

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

^a INFN SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; Higgs Physics; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 23144436408     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/07/028     Document Type: Article

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