NLO QCD corrections to off-shell top-antitop production with leptonic decays in association with a Higgs boson at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2015, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1-20

  Denner, Ansgar ^a   Feger, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo Simulations; NLO Computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949197170     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2015)209     Document Type: Article

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