NLO vector-boson production matched with shower in POWHEG

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Alioli, Simone ^a   Nason, Paolo ^a   Oleari, Carlo ^a   Re, Emanuele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 49749093995     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/07/060     Document Type: Article

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