NLO production of W' bosons at hadron colliders using the MC@NLO and POWHEG methods

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Papaefstathiou, A ^a   Latunde Dada, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; NLO Computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350035498     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/07/044     Document Type: Article

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