Renormalization-group improved predictions for top-quark pair production at hadron colliders

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Ahrens, Valentin ^a   Ferroglia, Andrea ^a   Neubert, Matthias ^a,b   Pecjak, Ben D ^a   Yang, Li Lin ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT FÜR THEORETISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; QCD; Renormalization group

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649689914     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2010)097     Document Type: Article

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