Analytic structure of one-loop coefficients

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Feng, Bo ^a,b   Wang, Honghui ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anomalies in Field and String Theories; Renormalization Regularization and Renormalons; Scattering Amplitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878936427     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2013)104     Document Type: Article

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