Higgs production through vector-boson fusion at the NLO matched with parton showers

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

Volumn 726, Issue 1-3, 2013, Pages 273-282

  Frixione, Stefano ^a,b   Torrielli, Paolo ^c   Zaro, Marco ^d  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c PHYSIK INSTITUT DER UNIVERSITÄT ZÜRICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Higgs; LHC; QCD phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884699672     PISSN: 03702693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2013.08.030     Document Type: Article

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