A positive-weight next-to-leading order simulation of weak boson pair production

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Hamilton, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; Jets; NLO computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053150644     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2011)009     Document Type: Review

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