The fully differential hadronic production of a Higgs boson through bottom-quark fusion at NNLO

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Buehler, Stephan ^a   Herzog, Franz ^a   Lazopoulos, Achilleas ^a   Mueller, Romain ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Higgs physics; QCD; Standard model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864486440     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2012)115     Document Type: Article

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