Form factors and scattering amplitudes in N = 4 SYM in dimensional and massive regularizations

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Henn, Johannes M ^a,d   Mochb, Sven ^b,d   Naculichc, Stephen G ^c,d  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DESY   (Germany)

^c BOWDOIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

1 N Expansion; AdS CFT Correspondence; NLO Computations; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84255161746     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP12(2011)024     Document Type: Article

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