Two-loop QCD corrections to the helicity amplitudes for H → 3 partons

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Gehrmann, T ^a   Jaquier, M ^a   Glover, E W N ^b   Koukoutsakis, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; Jets; NLO computations; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857870001     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2012)056     Document Type: Article

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