Numerical evaluation of six-photon amplitudes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Ossola, Giovanni ^a   Papadopoulos, Costas G ^a   Pittau, Roberto ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; NLO computations; QCD; Standard model

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547665038     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/07/085     Document Type: Article

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