Learning how to count: A high multiplicity search for the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  El Hedri, Sonia ^a   Hook, Anson ^b   Jankowiak, Martin ^c   Wacker, Jay G ^a  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUT FÜR THEORETISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Jets; QCD Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884581324     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2013)136     Document Type: Article

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