Combining Monte Carlo generators with next-to-next-to-leading order calculations: Event reweighting for Higgs boson production at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Davatz, Giovanna ^a   Stöckli, Fabian ^a   Anastasiou, Charalampos ^a   Dissertori, Günther ^a   Dittmar, Michael ^a   Melnikov, Kirill ^b   Petriello, Frank ^c,d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; Higgs Physics; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748791198     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/07/037     Document Type: Article

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