Dynamical threshold enhancement and resummation in Drell-Yan production

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Becher, Thomas ^a   Neubert, Matthias ^a,b,c   Xu, Gang ^c  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Newman Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics   (United States)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; NLO computations; QCD; Renormalization group

Indexed keywords

EID: 49749103938     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/07/030     Document Type: Article

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