MC@NLO for the hadronic decay of Higgs bosons in associated production with vector bosons

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Latunde Dada, Oluseyi ^a  

^a Department of Theoretical Physics ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

QCD phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650233998     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/05/112     Document Type: Article

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