Applying the POWHEG method to top-pair production and decays at the ILC

European Physical Journal C

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 543-554

  Latunde Dada, Oluseyi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

E + e experiments; NLO computations; Phenomenological models; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 57049152863     PISSN: 14346044     EISSN: 14346052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0785-1     Document Type: Article

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