Unitarity-Cuts and Berry's phase

Letters in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 199-204

  Mastrolia, Pierpaolo ^a  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Berry phase; Feynman diagrams; Optical theorem; Scattering amplitudes; Unitarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949775128     PISSN: 03779017     EISSN: 15730530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11005-010-0370-z     Document Type: Article

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