On the numerical evaluation of one-loop amplitudes: The gluonic case

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Giele, W T ^a   Zanderighi, G ^b  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; Jets; NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 47249113006     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/06/038     Document Type: Article

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