An analytic initial-state parton shower

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Kilian, Wolfgang ^a   Reuter, Jürgen ^b   Schmidt, Sebastian ^b   Wiesler, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^b DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; Jets; NLO Computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860264743     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2012)013     Document Type: Article

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