MadDipole: Automation of the dipole subtraction method in MadGraph/MadEvent

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Frederix, R ^a   Gehrmann, T ^b   Greiner, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149306151     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/09/122     Document Type: Article

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