Gluon-gluon contributions to W+W- production and Higgs interference effects

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Campbell, John M ^a   Ellis, R Keith ^a   Williams, Ciaran ^a  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Higgs Physics; NLO Computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 81155138196     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2011)005     Document Type: Article

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