Antenna showers with one-loop matrix elements

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Hartgring, L ^a   Laenen, E ^a,b,c   Skands, P ^d  

^a NIKHEF   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Monte carlo simulations; NLO computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892735776     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/Jhep10(2013)127     Document Type: Article

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