Effects of QCD radiation on inclusive variables for determining the scale of new physics at hadron colliders

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Papaefstathiou, Andreas ^a   Webber, Bryan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

QCD phenomenology; Supersymmetry phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350020203     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/06/069     Document Type: Article

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