Weak gauge boson radiation in parton showers

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Christiansen, Jesper R ^a   Sjöstrand, Torbjörn ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; Monte Carlo simulations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901465080     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2014)115     Document Type: Article

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