A positive-weight next-to-leading-order Monte Carlo for Z pair hadroproduction

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Nason, Paolo ^a   Ridolfi, Giovanni ^b  

^a INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; NLO Computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748289524     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/08/077     Document Type: Article

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