One-loop φ-MHV amplitudes using the unitarity bootstrap: The general helicity case

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Glover, E W Nigel ^a   Mastrolia, Pierpaolo ^b   Williams, Ciaran ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Higgs physics; NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749095462     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/08/017     Document Type: Article

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