Precision electroweak calculation of the production of a high transverse-momentum lepton pair at hadron colliders

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

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

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI PAVIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; Standard model

Indexed keywords

EID: 35748965006     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/10/109     Document Type: Article

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