NLO Higgs boson production via vector-boson fusion matched with shower in POWHEG

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Nason, Paolo ^a   Oleari, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954922970     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2010)037     Document Type: Article

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