Finite quark-mass effects in the NNLOPS POWHEG+MiNLO Higgs generator

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2015, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Hamilton, Keith ^a   Nason, Paolo ^b   Zanderighi, Giulia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo Simulations; NLO Computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930194411     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2015)140     Document Type: Article

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