Full one-loop amplitudes from tree amplitudes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Giele, Walter T ^a   Kunszt, Zoltan ^b   Melnikov, Kirill ^c  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 44449166767     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/04/049     Document Type: Article

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