Higgs interference effects in gg → ZZ and their uncertainty

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Passarino, Giampiero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; NLO computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865736016     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2012)146     Document Type: Article

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