W±bb̄ production in POWHEG

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Oleari, Carlo ^a   Reina, Laura ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b Florida State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053163665     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2011)061     Document Type: Article

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