Factorization and NNLL resummation for Higgs production with a jet veto

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Becher, Thomas ^a   Neubert, Matthias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Higgs physics; QCD; Renormalization group; Resummation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864432645     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2012)108     Document Type: Article

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