Enhanced thermal production of hard dileptons by 3 → 2 processes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1553-1583

  Aurenche, Patrick ^a   Gelis, François ^b   Zaraket, Haitham ^c  

^a LAPTH   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

Author keywords

QCD; Thermal Field Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044515797     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/07/063     Document Type: Article

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