Optimizing the reduction of one-loop amplitudes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Mastrolia, P ^a   Ossola, G ^b   Papadopoulos, C G ^b   Pittau, R ^c  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

NLO computations; Standard model

Indexed keywords

EID: 47249096199     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/06/030     Document Type: Article

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