Discriminating top-antitop resonances using azimuthal decay correlations

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Baumgart, Matthew ^a   Tweedie, Brock ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Boston University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Heavy quark physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053139546     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2011)049     Document Type: Article

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