NNLL resummation for squark-antisquark pair production at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Beenakker, Wim ^a   Brensing, Silja ^b   Krämer, Michael ^c   Kulesza, Anna ^a,c   Laenen, Eric ^d,e,f   Niessen, Irene ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b DESY   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f NIKHEF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Supersymmetry Phenomenology

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EID: 84857310045     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2012)076     Document Type: Article

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