Resummation prediction on Higgs and vector boson associated production with a jet veto at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Shao, Ding Yu ^a   Li, Chong Sheng ^a   Li, Hai Tao ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Higgs Physics; QCD; Renormalization Group; Resummation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901403805     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2014)117     Document Type: Article

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