NNLO corrections to top-pair production at hadron colliders: The all-fermionic scattering channels

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Czakon, Michal ^a   Mitov, Alexander ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; QCD Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872356886     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP12(2012)054     Document Type: Article

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