Mueller Navelet jets at LHC - Complete next-to-leading BFKL calculation

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Colferai, Dimitri ^a,b   Schwennsen, Florian ^c   Szymanowski, Lech ^d,e   Wallon, Samuel ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

^c DESY   (Germany)

^d SOLTAN INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Poland)

^e CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^g SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; Jets; NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650234671     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP12(2010)026     Document Type: Article

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