Perturbative QCD effects and the search for a H → WW → ℓνℓν signal at the Tevatron

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Anastasiou, Charalampos ^a   Dissertori, Günther ^a   Grazzini, Massimiliano ^b   Stöckli, Fabian ^a   Webber, Bryan ^c,d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; Higgs physics; NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350041519     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/08/099     Document Type: Article

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