NNLOPS accurate Drell-Yan production

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Karlberg, Alexander ^a   Re, Emanuele ^a   Zanderighi, Giulia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo Simulations; NLO Computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907462720     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2014)134     Document Type: Article

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