NLO Higgs boson production plus one and two jets using the POWHEG BOX, MadGraph4 and MCFM

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Campbell, John M ^a   Keith Ellis, R ^a   Frederix, Rikkert ^b   Nason, Paolo ^c   Oleari, Carlo ^c   Williams, Ciaran ^a  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Jets; Monte Carlo simulations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864489832     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2012)092     Document Type: Article

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