Higgs production with a central jet veto at NNLL+NNLO

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Berger, Carola F ^a   Marcantonini, Claudio ^a   Stewart, Iain W ^a,b   Tackmann, Frank J ^a   Waalewijn, Wouter J ^a,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; Higgs physics; Jets

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053179634     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2011)092     Document Type: Article

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