Two-loop QCD helicity amplitudes for g g → Z g and g g → Z γ

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Gehrmann, Thomas ^a   Tancredi, Lorenzo ^a   Weihs, Erich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; QCD Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884584143     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2013)101     Document Type: Article

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