W boson production at hadron colliders: The lepton charge asymmetry in NNLO QCD

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Catani, Stefano ^a   Ferrera, Giancarlo ^a   Grazzini, Massimiliano ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954962178     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2010)006     Document Type: Article

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