A consistent prescription for combining perturbative calculations and parton showers in case of associated Z 0b hadroproduction

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Kersevan, Borut Paul ^a,b   Mijovic, Liza ^b   Hinchliffe, Ian ^c  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; NLO computations; Parton model; Standard model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856389702     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/07/032     Document Type: Article

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