Matching fully differential NNLO calculations and parton showers

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Alioli, Simone ^a   Bauer, Christian W ^a   Berggren, Calvin ^a   Tackmann, Frank J ^b   Walsh, Jonathan R ^a   Zuberi, Saba ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Keywords: Monte Carlo Simulations; NLO Computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904364711     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2014)089     Document Type: Article

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