A positive-weight next-to-leading-order Monte Carlo for heavy flavour hadroproduction

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Frixione, Stefano ^a   Ridolfi, Giovanni ^a,b   Nason, Paolo ^c  

^a INFN SEZIONE DI GENOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c INFN Sez Milano   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 34948835597     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/09/126     Document Type: Article

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