Updated predictions for the total production cross sections of top and of heavier quark pairs at the Tevatron and at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Cacciari, Matteo ^a   Frixione, Stefano ^b,c,f   Mangano, Michelangelo L ^b   Nason, Paolo ^d   Ridolfi, Giovanni ^b,e  

^a LPTHE   (France)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c Ecl Polytech Federale de Lausanne   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^f INFN SEZIONE DI GENOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149308640     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/09/127     Document Type: Article

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