GenEvA (I): A new framework for event generation

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Bauer, Christian W ^a   Tackmann, Frank J ^a   Thaler, Jesse ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Jets; NLO computations; Phenomenological models; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 62649127919     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/12/010     Document Type: Article

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