Coherent parton showers with local recoils

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Plätzer, Simon ^a   Gieseke, Stefan ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

QCD phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053164324     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2011)024     Document Type: Article

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