Constraints on the gluon PDF from top quark pair production at hadron colliders

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Czakon, Michal ^a   Mangano, Michelangelo L ^b   Mitov, Alexander ^b   Rojo, Juan ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; QCD Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881457095     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2013)167     Document Type: Article

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