Structure of infrared singularities of gauge-theory amplitudes at three and four loops

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Ahrens, Valentin ^a   Neubert, Matthias ^a   Vernazza, Leonardo ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

QCD; Renormalization group; Resummation; Scattering amplitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928652025     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2012)138     Document Type: Article

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