The QCD form factor of heavy quarks at NNLO

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Gluza, J ^a   Mitov, A ^b   Moch, S ^c   Riemann, T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heavy Quark Physics; NLO Computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350009660     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/07/001     Document Type: Article

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