Revisiting combinatorial ambiguities at hadron colliders with M T2

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Baringer, Philip ^a   Kong, Kyoungchul ^a   McCaskey, Mathew ^a   Noonan, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; Standard model; Supersymmetric standard model

Indexed keywords

EID: 81255191603     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2011)101     Document Type: Article

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