NLO predictions for t-channel production of single top and fourth generation quarks at hadron colliders

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Campbell, John M ^a   Frederix, Rikkert ^b,c   Maltoni, Fabio ^c   Tramontano, Francesco ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; Heavy quark physics; NLO computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350754501     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/10/042     Document Type: Article

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