Massive planar and non-planar double box integrals for light Nf contributions to gg → tt̄

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Von Manteuffel, Andreas ^a,b   Studerus, Cedric ^c  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; Qcd phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890359112     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2013)037     Document Type: Article

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