MadGraph 5: Going beyond

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Alwall, Johan ^a   Herquet, Michel ^b   Maltoni, Fabio ^c   Mattelaerc, Olivier ^c   Stelzerd, Tim ^d  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NIKHEF   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^d University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

QCD phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053144634     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2011)128     Document Type: Article

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