A two-loop four-gluon helicity amplitude in QCD

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-29

  Bern, Zvi ^a   Dixon, Lance ^b   Kosower, David A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Jets; NLO Computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 7444227086     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/01/027     Document Type: Article

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