Subleading Nc improved parton showers

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Plätzer, Simon ^a   Sjödahl, Malin ^b  

^a DESY   (Germany)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo simulations; QCD phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864489000     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2012)042     Document Type: Article

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