Multi-gluon collinear limits from MHV diagrams

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 5, 2005, Pages 248-273

  Birthwright, Thomas G ^a   Glover, E W Nigel ^a   Khoze, Valentin V ^a   Marquard, Peter ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Duality in Gauge Field Theories; NLO Computations; QCD

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EID: 21444453138     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/05/013     Document Type: Article

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