Generalized unitarity at work: First NLO QCD results for hadronic S

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Ellis, R Keith ^a   Melnikov, Kirill ^b   Zanderighi, Giulia ^c  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; Jets; NLO computations; Standard model

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649559479     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/04/077     Document Type: Article

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