Electroweak corrections to lepton pair production in association with two hard jets at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2015, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Denner, A ^a   Hofer, L ^b   Scharf, A ^a   Uccirati, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; NLO Computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921329945     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2015)094     Document Type: Article

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