Vbfnlo: A parton level Monte Carlo for processes with electroweak bosons

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 180, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1661-1670

  Arnold, K ^a   Bahr M ^a   Bozzi, G ^a   Campanario, F ^a,b   Englert, C ^a   Figy, T ^c   Greiner, N ^d   Hackstein, C ^a   Hankele, V ^a   Jager B ^e   Klamke G ^a   Kubocz, M ^a   Oleari, C ^f   Platzer S ^a   Prestel, S ^a   Worek, M ^a,g   Zeppenfeld, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Electroweak bosons; Hadronic collisions; NLO Monte Carlo program; One loop QCD corrections

Indexed keywords

ANOMALOUS COUPLINGS; CATALOGUE IDENTIFIERS; CROSS SECTION; DECAY PRODUCTS; DISTRIBUTED PROGRAM; ELECTROWEAK BOSONS; EXTRA DIMENSIONS; FORTRAN; GNU SCIENTIFIC LIBRARY; HADRONIC COLLISIONS; HIGGS BOSON; INTERFACE LIBRARY; IRELAND; K-FACTOR; LEADING ORDERS; LOOP LEVEL; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO PROGRAMS; NEXT-TO-LEADING ORDERS; NLO MONTE CARLO PROGRAM; ONE-LOOP QCD CORRECTIONS; OPERATING SYSTEMS; PARTON DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; PRODUCTION CROSS SECTION; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; QUARK-MASS DEPENDENCE; RUNNING TIME; SCALE DEPENDENCE; SEARCH REGION; SHELL EFFECTS; SOLUTION METHODS; SPIN CORRELATIONS; STRONG COUPLING; TEST DATA; THE STANDARD MODEL; VECTOR BOSON;

BOSONS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBLEM ORIENTED LANGUAGES; TEST FACILITIES; VECTORS;

STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 68849132137     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2009.03.006     Document Type: Article

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