Boson-boson scattering and Higgs production at the LHC from a six fermion point of view: Four jets + lν processes at (αem6)

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 3, 2006, Pages 6185-6210

  Accomando, Elena ^a,b   Ballestrero, Alessandro ^a,b   Bolognesi, Sara ^a,b   Maina, Ezio ^a,b   Mariotti, Chiara ^a  

^a SEZIONE DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; Standard Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645654566     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/03/093     Document Type: Review

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