Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal resummation for dilepton production

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 95-113

  Aurenche, Patrick ^a   Gelis, François ^b   Moore, Guy David ^c,d   Zaraket, Haitham ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^b CEA SACLAY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

Author keywords

QCD; Thermal Field Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044465236     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/12/006     Document Type: Article

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