Theoretical uncertainties in electroweak boson production cross sections at 7, 10, and 14 TeV at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Adam, N ^a   Halyo, V ^a   Yost, S A ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THE CITADEL   (United States)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; NLO computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649748939     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2010)074     Document Type: Article

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