NLO single-top production matched with shower in POWHEG: S- and t-channel contributions

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Alioli, Simone ^a,b   Nason, Paolo ^b   Oleari, Carlo ^a,b   Re, Emanuele ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350063971     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/09/111     Document Type: Article

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