Recursive generation of one-loop amplitudes in the Standard Model

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Actis, S ^a   Denner, A ^b   Hofer, L ^b   Scharf, A ^b   Uccirati, S ^c  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; NLO Computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876357844     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2013)037     Document Type: Article

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