Single-top hadroproduction in association with a W boson

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Frixione, Stefano ^a,b   Laenen, Eric ^c,d,e   Motylinski, Patrick ^d   White, Chris ^d   Webber, Bryan R ^f  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d NIKHEF   (Netherlands)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heavy quark physics; NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 49749113601     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/07/029     Document Type: Article

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