Algebraic evaluation of rational polynomials in one-loop amplitudes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Binoth, Thomas ^a   Guillet, Jean Philippe ^b   Heinrich, Gudrun ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b LAPTH   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; NLO computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947636685     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/02/013     Document Type: Article

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