Two-loop soft corrections and resummation of the thrust distribution in the dijet region

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Monni, Pier Francesco ^a   Gehrmann, Thomas ^a   Luisoni, Gionata ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

QCD Phenomenology

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EID: 80053167312     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2011)010     Document Type: Article

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