Boosted top production: Factorization and resummation for single-particle inclusive distributions

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Ferroglia, Andrea ^b   Marzani, Simone ^c   Pecjak, Ben D ^c   Yang, Li Lin ^a,d  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter ^*  (China)

Author keywords

Heavy Quark Physics; QCD; Resummation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892391218     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2014)028     Document Type: Article

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