O(αs2) corrections to fully-differential top quark decays

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Brucherseifer, Mathias ^a   Caola, Fabrizio ^b   Melnikov, Kirill ^b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

NLO Computations; QCD Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876404040     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2013)059     Document Type: Article

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