HELAC-NLO

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 184, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 986-997

  Bevilacqua, G ^a   Czakon, M ^a   Garzelli, M V ^b,c   Van Hameren, A ^d   Kardos, A ^b   Papadopoulos, C G ^e   Pittau, R ^f   Worek, M ^g  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOVA GORICA   (Slovenia)

^d INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

^e INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Greece)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

NLO corrections; QCD; Scattering amplitudes

Indexed keywords

NLO CORRECTIONS; QCD; SCATTERING AMPLITUDES;

PHYSICS;

PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY;

EID: 84872043327     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2012.10.033     Document Type: Article

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