Two-loop QCD helicity amplitudes for massless quark-quark scattering

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 419-485

  Glover, E W Nigel ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Jets; NLO Computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044470034     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/04/021     Document Type: Article

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