Precision electroweak calculation of the charged current Drell-Yan process

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Calame, Carlo M Carloni ^a,b   Montagna, Guido ^a,b   Nicrosini, Oreste ^a   Vicini, Alessandro ^c,d  

^a INFN SEZIONE DI PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; Standard Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846247907     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/12/016     Document Type: Review

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