Accurate QCD predictions for heavy-quark jets at the Tevatron and LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Banfi, Andrea ^a   Salam, Gavin P ^b   Zanderighi, Giulia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b LPTHE   (France)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; Jets; NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547687434     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/07/026     Document Type: Article

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