The NNLO soft function for the pair invariant mass distribution of boosted top quarks

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Ferroglia, Andrea ^a   Pecjak, Ben D ^b   Yang, Li Lin ^c  

^a NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; NLO computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868270107     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2012)180     Document Type: Article

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