Transverse-momentum resummation for vector-boson pair production at NNLL+NNLO

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2015, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Grazzini, Massimiliano ^a   Kallweit, Stefan ^b   Rathlev, Dirk ^a   Wiesemann, Marius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; QCD Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941349058     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2015)154     Document Type: Article

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