Higgs production in hadron collisions: Soft and virtual QCD corrections at NNLO

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2001, Pages

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

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; Higgs physics; NLO Computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744736995     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/05/025     Document Type: Article

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