Matching parton showers to NLO computations

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 10, 2005, Pages 591-648

  Nagy, Zoltán ^a   Soper, Davison E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Jets; NLO Computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 27544508836     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/10/024     Document Type: Article

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