Complete off-shell effects in top quark pair hadroproduction with leptonic decay at next-to-leading order

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Bevilacqua, Giuseppe ^a,b   Czakon, Michat ^b   Hameren, Andreas Van ^c   Papadopoulos, Costas G ^a   Worek, Malgorzata ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; Jets; NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053168546     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2011)083     Document Type: Article

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