The unitarity method using a canonical basis approach

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Dunbar, David C ^a   Perkins, Warren B ^a   Warrick, Edmund ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

NLO Computations; QCD; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350025030     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/06/056     Document Type: Article

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