One-loop QCD corrections to gluon-gluon scattering at NNLO

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2001, Pages

  Nigel Glover, E W ^a   Tejeda Yeomans, Maria Elena ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; Jets; Nlo computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744745648     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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