Parton shower effects on W and Z production via vector boson fusion at NLO QCD

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Schissler, Franziska ^a   Zeppenfeld, Dieter ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo Simulations; NLO Computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876396942     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2013)057     Document Type: Article

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