NLO QCD matrix elements + parton showers in e+e- → hadrons

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Gehrmann, Thomas ^a   Höche, Stefan ^b   Krauss, Frank ^c   Schönherr, Marek ^c   Siegert, Frank ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo Simulations; NLO Computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873300675     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2013)144     Document Type: Article

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