Inclusive top-pair production phenomenology with TOPIXS

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Beneke, M ^a,b   Falgari, P ^c   Klein, S ^b   Piclum, J ^a,b   Schwinn, C ^d   Ubiali, M ^b   Yan, F ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

NLO Computations; QCD Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865098606     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2012)194     Document Type: Article

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