Searching for sgluons in multitop events at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Calvet, Samuel ^a   Fuks, Benjamin ^b,c   Gris, Philippe ^a   Valéry, Loïc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo Simulations; Phenomenological Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876366017     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2013)043     Document Type: Article

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