Automation of next-to-leading order computations in QCD: The FKS subtraction

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Frederix, Rikkert ^a,c   Frixione, Stefano ^a,b,e   Maltoni, Fabio ^c   Stelzer, Tim ^d  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e INFN SEZIONE DI GENOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Heavy quark physics; NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 71449126885     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/10/003     Document Type: Article

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