Single-top t-channel hadroproduction in the four-flavour scheme with POWHEG and aMC@NLO

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Frederix, Rikkert ^a   Re, Emanuele ^b   Torrielli, Paolo ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Monte carlo simulations; NLO computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907677122     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/Jhep09(2012)130     Document Type: Article

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