Two-loop amplitudes for gluon fusion into two photons

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2001, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; NLO Computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744896302     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/09/037     Document Type: Article

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