On the structure of infrared singularities of gauge-theory amplitudes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Becher, Thomas ^a   Neubert, Matthias ^b  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; Jets; NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350048854     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/06/081     Document Type: Article

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