Antenna subtraction at NNLO with hadronic initial states: Double real radiation for initial-initial configurations with two quark flavours

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Boughezal, Radja ^a   Gehrmann De Ridder, Aude ^b   Ritzmann, Mathias ^b  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; Jets; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053144630     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2011)098     Document Type: Article

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