Infrared safe observables in N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

Volumn 681, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 296-303

  Bork, L V ^b   Kazakov, D I ^a,b   Vartanov, G S ^a,c   Zhiboedov, A V ^a,d  

^a JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Infrared safe observables; Maximally helicity violating amplitudes; Super Yang Mills

Indexed keywords

EID: 71149089593     PISSN: 03702693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2009.10.013     Document Type: Article

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