Higgs production in association with bottom quarks

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2015, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 35-

  Wiesemann, M ^a   Frederix, R ^b   Frixione, S ^b   Hirschi, V ^c   Maltoni, F ^d   Torrielli, P ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; NLO Computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924159868     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2015)132     Document Type: Article

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