AMC@NLO predictions for W jj production at the Tevatron

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Frederix, Rikkert ^a   Frixione, Stefano ^b,c   Hirschi, Valentin ^c   Maltoni, Fabio ^d   Pittau, Roberto ^e   Torrielli, Paolo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

QCD phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857836466     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2012)048     Document Type: Article

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