Higgs production via gluon fusion in the POWHEG approach in the SM and in the MSSM

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Bagnaschi, E ^a,b   Degrassi, G ^c   Slavich, P ^b   Vicini, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b LPTHE   (France)

^c ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Higgs physics; NLO computations; Standard model; Supersymmetric Standard Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857823925     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2012)088     Document Type: Article

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