The electron energy spectrum in muon decay through O;(α2)

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Anastasiou, Charalampos ^a   Melnikov, Kirill ^b   Petriello, Frank ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

NLO computations; Weak decays

Indexed keywords

EID: 34948910072     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/09/014     Document Type: Article

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