Combination of electroweak and QCD corrections to single W production at the Fermilab Tevatron and the CERN LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Balossini, Giovanni ^a,b   Montagna, Guido ^a,b   Calame, Carlo Michel Carloni ^c,d   Moretti, Mauro ^e   Nicrosini, Oreste ^b   Piccinini, Fulvio ^b   Treccanif, Michele ^f   Vicinig, Alessandro ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI PAVIA   (Italy)

^c INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI FRASCATI   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; QCD; Standard model

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954991041     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2010)013     Document Type: Article

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