Measuring the polarization of boosted hadronic tops

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Krohn, David ^a   Shelton, Jessie ^b,c   Wanga, Lian Tao ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Heavy quark physics; Jets

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954983376     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2010)041     Document Type: Article

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