From loops to trees by-passing Feynman's theorem

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Catani, Stefano ^a   Gleisberg, Tanju ^b   Krauss, Frank ^c   Rodrigo, Germán ^d   Winter, Jan Christopher ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^e FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149280606     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/09/065     Document Type: Article

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