An integrand reconstruction method for three-loop amplitudes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Badger, Simon ^a   Frellesvig, Hjalte ^a   Zhang, Yang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

QCD; Scattering Amplitudes; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865230937     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2012)065     Document Type: Article

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