Next-to-leading order QCD corrections to Higgs boson production in association with a photon via weak-boson fusion at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Arnold, Ken ^a   Figy, Terrance ^b   Jälger, Barbara ^c   Zeppenfeld, Dieter ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Higgs Physics; NLO Computations; QCD; Standard Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960819557     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2010)088     Document Type: Article

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