Double real radiation corrections to t̄t production at the LHC: The all-fermion processes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Abelof, Gabriel ^a   Gehrmann De Ridder, Aude ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; NLO Computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860266638     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2012)076     Document Type: Article

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