A positive-weight next-to-leading order Monte Carlo simulation of Drell-Yan vector boson production

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Hamilton, Keith ^a   Richardson, Peter ^b,c   Tully, Jon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; Phenomenological models; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 57049148645     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/10/015     Document Type: Article

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