NLO QCD corrections to tt̄bb̄ production at the LHC: 2. Full hadronic results

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Bredenstein, A ^a   Denner, A ^b   Dittmaier, S ^c   Pozzorinid, S ^d  

^a HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; Higgs physics; NLO computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954935631     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2010)021     Document Type: Article

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