Factorization and N3LLp+NNLO predictions for the Higgs cross section with a jet veto

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Becher, Thomas ^a   Neubert, Matthias ^b   Rothen, Lorena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Higgs physics; QCD; Resummation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892683912     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/Jhep10(2013)125     Document Type: Article

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