Single-inclusive production of large-pT charged particles in hadronic collisions at TeV energies and perturbative QCD predictions

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Arleo, François ^a   D'Enterriab, David ^b   Yoon, Andre S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; NLO computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856406202     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2010)035     Document Type: Article

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