Double real radiation corrections to tt-production at the LHC: The gg → tt-qq-channel

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Abelof, G ^a   Gehrmann De Ridder, A ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; NLO computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870450000     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2012)074     Document Type: Article

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