A positive-weight Next-to-leading order Monte Carlo simulation for Higgs boson production

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Hamilton, Keith ^a   Richardson, Peter ^b   Tully, Jon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; Phenomenological models; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650273372     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/04/116     Document Type: Article

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