Integrated dipoles with maddipole in the MadGraph framework

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Frederix, R ^a   Gehrmann, T ^a   Greiner, N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b United States of America   (United States)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954972567     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2010)086     Document Type: Article

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