Weak corrections to Higgs hadroproduction in association with a top-quark pair

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1-30

  Frixione, S ^a   Hirschi, V ^b   Pagani, D ^c   Shao, H S ^d   Zaro, M ^e,f  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^f LPTHE   (France)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; NLO Computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919917517     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2014)065     Document Type: Article

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