A general framework for implementing NLO calculations in shower Monte Carlo programs: The POWHEG BOX

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Alioli, Simone ^a,b   Nason, Paolo ^b   Oleari, Carlo ^b   Re, Emanuele ^b,c  

^a DESY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954971347     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2010)043     Document Type: Article

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