Automated one-loop calculations: A proof of concept

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Van Hameren, A ^a   Papadopoulos, C G ^b   Pittau, R ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; NLO computations; QCD; Standard model

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350043452     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/09/106     Document Type: Article

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