Using γ jets production to calibrate the Standard Model Z(→VV) + jets background to new physics processes at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Ask, S ^a   Parker, M A ^a   Sandoval, T ^a   Shea, M E ^a   Stirling, W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

QCD phenomenology; Supersymmetry phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 81155124291     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2011)058     Document Type: Article

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