Strategies to identify boosted tops

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Thaler, Jesse ^a,b   Wang, Lian Tao ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Heavy quark physics; Jets

Indexed keywords

EID: 49749147125     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/07/092     Document Type: Article

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