Higgs Boson Production in Association with a Jet at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Boughezal, Radja ^a   Caola, Fabrizio ^b   Melnikov, Kirill ^c   Petriello, Frank ^a,d   Schulze, Markus ^b  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; QUANTUM THEORY;

EFFECTIVE FIELD THEORY; FULLY DIFFERENTIAL; HIGGS BOSON; NEXT TO NEXT TO LEADING ORDERS; NEXT-TO-LEADING ORDERS; QUARK-GLUON; SCALE DEPENDENCE;

BOSONS;

EID: 84940731431     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.082003     Document Type: Article

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