The matrix element method at next-to-leading order

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Campbell, John M ^a   Giele, Walter T ^a   Williams, Ciaran ^a  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; NLO Computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869067028     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2012)043     Document Type: Article

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