Assault on the NLO wishlist: Pp → tt̄bb̄

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Bevilacqua, G ^a   Czakon, M ^b   Papadopoulos, C G ^a   Pittau, R ^c   Worek, M ^d,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Greece)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; NLO computations; QCD; Standard model

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350041463     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/09/109     Document Type: Article

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