Soft gluons and gauge-invariant subtractions in NLO parton-shower Monte Carlo event generators

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2001, Pages

  Collins, John C ^a   Hautmann, Francesco ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

NLO Computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744941125     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/03/016     Document Type: Article

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