One-loop φ-MHV amplitudes using the unitarity bootstrap

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Badger, Simon D ^a   Glover, E W Nigel ^b   Risager, Kasper ^c  

^a CEA SACLAY   (France)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Higgs physics; NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547652583     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/07/066     Document Type: Article

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