The NNLO QCD corrections to Z boson production at large transverse momentum

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2016, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Gehrmann de Ridder, Aude ^a,b,c   Gehrmann, T ^b,c   Glover, E W N ^d   Huss, A ^a   Morgan, T A ^d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

QCD Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979950216     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2016)133     Document Type: Article

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