A consistent prescription for the production involving massive quarks in hadron collisions

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Kersevan, Borut Paul ^a,b   Hinchliffe, Ian ^c  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; NLO Computations; Parton Model; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749374139     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/09/033     Document Type: Article

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