Measuring boosted tops in semi-leptonic tt events for the standard model and beyond

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Backović, Mihailo ^a   Gabizon, Ofir ^a   Juknevich, José ^a,b   Perez, Gilad ^a,c   Soreq, Yotam ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Jets; Phenomenological models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901417482     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2014)176     Document Type: Article

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