Automation of one-loop QCD computations

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Hirschi, Valentin ^a   Frederix, Rikkert ^b   Frixione, Stefano ^a,c   Garzelli, Maria Vittoria ^d,e   Maltoni, Fabio ^f   Pittau, Roberto ^c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053149864     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2011)044     Document Type: Article

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