NLL+NNLO predictions for jet-veto efficiencies in Higgs-boson and Drell-Yan production

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Banfi, Andrea ^a   Salam, Gavin P ^b,c,d   Zanderighi, Giulia ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LPTHE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Higgs physics; QCD; Resummation; Standard model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864196060     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2012)159     Document Type: Article

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