Direct photon production with effective field theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Bechera, Thomas ^a   Schwartz, Matthew D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; Jets; QCD; Renormalization group

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954938170     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2010)040     Document Type: Article

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