NLO QCD corrections to W+ W- bb̄ production with leptonic decays in the light of top quark mass and asymmetry measurements

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Heinrich, Gudrun ^a   Maier, Andreas ^a   Nisius, Richard ^a   Schlenk, Johannes ^a   Winter, Jan ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; NLO Computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904293009     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2014)158     Document Type: Article

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