Dissolving script N sign = 4 loop amplitudes into QCD tree amplitudes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2005, Pages

  Roiban, Radu ^a   Spradlin, Marcus ^b   Volovich, Anastasia ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUON SCATTERING; JET PRODUCTIONS; ONE-LOOP AMPLITUDES; TREE AMPLITUDES;

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; INFRARED RADIATION; LINEAR EQUATIONS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 18044396162     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.102002     Document Type: Article

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