Boosted semileptonic tops in stop decays

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Plehn, Tilman ^a   Spannowsky, Michael ^b   Takeuchia, Michihisa ^a  

^a INSTITUT FÜR THEORETISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Hadron Hadron scattering

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053149492     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2011)135     Document Type: Article

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