Comix, a new matrix element generator

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Gleisberg, Tanju ^a   Höche, Stefan ^b  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Jets; QCD; Standard model

Indexed keywords

EID: 62649122484     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/12/039     Document Type: Article

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