Hadroproduction of W+ W− b b¯ at NLO accuracy matched with shower Monte Carlo programs

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Garzelli, Maria Vittoria ^a   Kardos, Adam ^a   Trócsányi, Zoltán ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; NLO Computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919935398     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2014)069     Document Type: Article

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