HW±/HZ + 0 and 1 jet at NLO with the POWHEG BOX interfaced to GoSam and their merging within MiNLO

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Luisoni, Gionata ^a   Nason, Paolo ^b   Oleari, Carlo ^b,c   Tramontano, Francesco ^d,e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^e EINFN Sezione di Napoli   (Italy)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo Simulations; NLO Computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892403649     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2013)083     Document Type: Article

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