Next-to-leading order QCD corrections to W+W- production via vector-boson fusion

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Jäger, Barbara ^a   Oleari, Carlo ^b   Zeppenfeld, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

NLO Computations; QCD; Standard Model; Weak Decays

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748784867     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/07/015     Document Type: Article

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