NNLO QCD predictions for the H → WW →ℓνℓν signal at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Anastasiou, Charalampos ^a   Dissertori, Günther ^b   Stöckli, Fabian ^b  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Higgs physics; NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 34948853867     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/09/018     Document Type: Article

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