Virtual amplitudes and threshold behaviour of hadronic top-quark pair-production cross sections

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Barnreuther P ^a   Czakon, M ^a   Fiedler, P ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; QCD phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901423041     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2014)078     Document Type: Article

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