W+W-, WZ and ZZ production in the POWHEG BOX

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Melia, Tom ^a   Nason, Paolo ^b   Röntsch, Raoul ^a   Zanderighi, Giulia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 84255161550     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2011)078     Document Type: Article

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