Gluon-induced WW background to Higgs boson searches at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1513-1523

  Binoth, Thomas ^a   Ciccolini, Mariano ^b   Kauer, Nikolas ^c   Krämer, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; Higgs Physics; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 27344434594     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/03/065     Document Type: Article

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