NNLO leptonic and hadronic corrections to Bhabha scattering and luminosity monitoring at meson factories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Calame, C Carloni ^a   Czyz H ^b   Gluza, J ^b   Gunia, M ^b   Montagna, G ^c,d   Nicrosini, O ^d   Piccinini, F ^d   Riemann, T ^e   Worekf, M ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI PAVIA   (Italy)

^e DESY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic processes and properties; NLO computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053168490     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2011)126     Document Type: Article

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