Techniques for QCD calculations by numerical integration

Abstract

Calculations of observables in quantum chromodynamics are typically performed using a method that combines numerical integrations over the momenta of final state particles with analytical integrations over the momenta of virtual particles. I describe the most important steps of a method for performing all of the integrations numerically.

36 pages with 16 postscript figures

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