Two-loop planar corrections to heavy-quark pair production in the quark-antiquark channel

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Bonciani, R ^a   Ferroglia, A ^b   Gehrmann, T ^c   Studerus, C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER GRENOBLE 1   (France)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Heavy quark physics; Nlo computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350020200     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/08/067     Document Type: Article

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