Evaluation of the theoretical uncertainties in the Z → ℓ+ℓ-cross sections at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Adam, Nadia E ^a   Halyo, Valerie ^a   Yost, Scott A ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 47249159867     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/05/062     Document Type: Article

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