One-loop amplitudes for W+3 jet production in hadron collisions

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Ellis, R Keith ^a   Giele, W T ^a   Kunszt, Zoltan ^b   Melnikov, Kirill ^c   Zanderighi, Giulia ^d  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Jets; NLO Computations; QCD; Standard model

Indexed keywords

EID: 62649099305     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/01/012     Document Type: Article

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