Tensorial reconstruction at the integrand level

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Heinrich, G ^a,b   Ossola, G ^c   Reiter, T ^d   Tramontano, F ^e  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NIKHEF   (Netherlands)

^e CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649704626     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2010)105     Document Type: Article

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