Efficient identification of boosted semileptonic top quarks at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Rehermann, Keith ^a,b   Tweedie, Brock ^a,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Hadronic Colliders; Jets; Technicolor and Composite Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053099992     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2011)059     Document Type: Article

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