Feynman rules for the Rational Part of the Electroweak 1-loop amplitudes in the Rξ gauge and in the Unitary gauge

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Garzelli, M V ^a,b   Malamos, I ^c   Pittau, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

NLO computations; Standard Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053121570     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2011)029     Document Type: Article

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