Parton-shower effects on Higgs boson production via vector-boson fusion in association with three jets

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Jäger, Barbara ^a   Schissler, Franziska ^b   Zeppenfeld, Dieter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo Simulations; NLO Computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905403488     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2014)125     Document Type: Article

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