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Gauge boson production at colliders – Predictions for precision studies

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Abstract

The status of today’s theoretical description of Standard Model (SM) processes involving gauge bosons at the Tevatron and the LHC, and of the tools that are used in their phenomenological studies are reviewed. A few recent ideas to further improve on the way technically challenging calculations can be performed also are discussed.

Keywords

Next-to-leading order quantum chromodynamics gauge bosons 

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12.38.-t 12.15.-y 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.University of Oxford and STFC, Theoretical PhysicsOxfordUK

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