Recursive calculation of one-loop QCD integral coefficients

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 11, 2005, Pages 609-644

  Bern, Zvi ^a   Bjerrum Bohr, Niels Emil Jannik ^b   Dunbar, David C ^b   Ita, Harald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extended Supersymmetry; NLO Computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644776173     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/11/027     Document Type: Article

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