Study of perturbative QCD predictions at next-to-leading order and beyond for pp → H → γγ + X

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1917-1935

  Stöckli, Fabian ^a   Holzner, André G ^a   Dissertori, Günther ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hadron Hadron Scattering; Higgs Physics; NLO Computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 27544446444     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/10/079     Document Type: Article

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