Next-to-leading-order Monte Carlo simulation of diphoton production in hadronic collisions

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  D'Errico, Luca ^a,b   Richardson, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

QCD phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857864008     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2012)130     Document Type: Article

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