NLO QCD corrections to top quark pair production and decay at hadron colliders

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Melnikov, Kirill ^a   Schulze, Markus ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

QCD Phenomenology

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EID: 70350033474     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/08/049     Document Type: Article

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