Electroweak and QCD corrections to top-pair hadroproduction in association with heavy bosons

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2015, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1-28

  Frixione, S ^a   Hirschi, V ^b   Pagani, D ^c   Shao, H S ^a   Zaro, M ^d,e  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e LPTHE   (France)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; NLO Computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957882922     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2015)184     Document Type: Article

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