Separation of hadronic W-decays from QCD-background with self-organizing maps

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 426, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 599-604

  Becks, K H ^a   Drees, J ^a   Flagmeyer, U ^a   Muller U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLIDING BEAM ACCELERATORS; NEURAL NETWORKS; QUANTUM THEORY;

RADIOACTIVE DECAY; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 0033131072     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(99)00049-2     Document Type: Article

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