QCD corrections to the hadronic production of a heavy quark pair and a W-boson including decay correlations

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Badger, Simon ^a   Campbell, John M ^b   Ellis, R K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053154337     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2011)027     Document Type: Article

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