Automatic spin-entangled decays of heavy resonances in Monte Carlo simulations

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Artoisenet, Pierre ^a   Frederix, Rikkert ^b   Mattelaer, Olivier ^c   Rietkerk, Robbert ^a,d  

^a NIKHEF   (Netherlands)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; Monte Carlo Simulations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876220145     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2013)015     Document Type: Article

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