The production of a diphoton resonance via photon-photon fusion

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2016, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Harland Lang, L A ^a   Khoze, V A ^b,c   Ryskin, M G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Phenomenological models; QCD phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008440883     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2016)182     Document Type: Article

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