Electroweak gauge boson polarisation at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Stirling, W J ^a   Vryonidou, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

QCD; Standard model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864494742     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2012)124     Document Type: Article

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