NNLO corrections to event shapes in e +e - annihilation

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  De Ridder, A Gehrmann ^a   Gehrmann, T ^b   Glover, E W N ^c   Heinrich, G ^d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Jets; LEP HERA and SLC physics; NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856391715     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/12/094     Document Type: Article

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