On the integrand-reduction method for two-loop cattering amplitudes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Mastrolia, Pierpaolo ^a,b   Ossola, Giovanni ^c,d  

^a Max Planck Insitut für Physik ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

NLO computations; QCD; Standard model

Indexed keywords

EID: 81255169889     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2011)014     Document Type: Article

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