Improving NLO-parton shower matched simulations with higher order matrix elements

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Hamilton, Keith ^a   Nason, Paolo ^a  

^a INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; Jets; NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955011929     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2010)039     Document Type: Article

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