A calculational formalism for one-loop integrals

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 639-669

  Giele, Walter T ^a   Glover, E W Nigel ^b  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Jets; LEP HERA and SLC Physics; NLO Computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044456391     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/04/029     Document Type: Article

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