Dominant QCD backgrounds in higgs boson analyses at the LHC: A study of pp→tt̄+2 jets at next-to-leading order

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 16, 2010, Pages

  Bevilacqua, G ^a   Czakon, M ^b   Papadopoulos, C G ^a   Worek, M ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Greece)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGGS BOSON; LEADING ORDERS; NEXT-TO-LEADING ORDERS; PAIR PRODUCTION; SINGLE JET;

BOSONS; PHOTONS;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 77951288540     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.162002     Document Type: Article

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