On soft singularities at three loops and beyond

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Dixon, Lance J ^a   Gardi, Einan ^b   Magnea, Lorenzo ^c,d  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Jets; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954923298     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2010)081     Document Type: Article

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