Predictions for Higgs production at the Tevatron and the associated uncertainties

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Baglio, Julien ^a   Djouadi, Abdelhak ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; Higgs physics; QCD; Standard Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649707959     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2010)064     Document Type: Article

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