The singular behavior of massive QCD amplitudes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Mitov, Alexander ^a   Moch, Sven Olaf ^a  

^a DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547607098     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/05/001     Document Type: Article

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