Fragmentation functions at next-to-next-to-leading order accuracy

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 92, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Anderle, Daniele P ^a   Stratmann, Marco ^b   Ringer, Felix ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 84952310364     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.92.114017     Document Type: Article

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