T t- W± + t t- Z hadroproduction at NLO accuracy in QCD with Parton Shower and Hadronization effects

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Garzelli, M V ^a   Kardos, A ^b   Papadopoulos, C G ^c,d   Trocsanyi Z ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVA GORICA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^c INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

NLO computations; QCD phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870342714     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2012)056     Document Type: Article

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