Top-quark pairs at high invariant mass: A model-independent discriminator of new physics at the large hadron collider

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Barger, Vernon ^a   Han, Tao ^a   Walker, Devin G E ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETOELECTRONICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RESONANCE;

HADRON COLLIDER; SEMILEPTONIC EVENTS; TOP-QUARK PAIRS;

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 38549123593     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.031801     Document Type: Article

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