Two-loop helicity amplitudes for quark-gluon scattering in QCD and gluino-gluon scattering in supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 683-760

  Bern, Zvi ^a   De Freitas, Abilio ^b   Dixon, Lance ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DESY   (Germany)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; Jets; NLO Computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 23144457049     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/06/028     Document Type: Article

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