Two-loop fermionic corrections to heavy-quark pair production: The quark-antiquark channel

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Bonciani, R ^a   Ferroglia, A ^a   Gehrmann, T ^a   Maitre D ^b   Studerus, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 49749123810     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/07/129     Document Type: Article

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