On the ratio of tt̄bb̄ and tt̄jj cross sections at the CERN large hadron collider

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Bevilacqua, G ^a   Worek, M ^b  

^a INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI FRASCATI   (Italy)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Keywords: QCD Phenomenology; NLO Computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905406545     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2014)135     Document Type: Article

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