Initial-state showering based on colour dipoles connected to incoming parton lines

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Winter, Jan Christopher ^a   Krauss, Frank ^b  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; Jets; Phenomenological models; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 49749128372     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/07/040     Document Type: Article

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