Next-to-leading order QCD corrections to di-photon production in association with up to three jets at the Large Hadron Collider

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Badger, Simon ^a   Guffanti, Alberto ^b   Yundin, Valery ^c  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Jets; Nlo computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901453613     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2014)122     Document Type: Article

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