Unsafe but calculable: Ratios of angularities in perturbative QCD

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Larkoski, Andrew J ^a   Thaler, Jesse ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Jets; QCD phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904158119     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2013)137     Document Type: Article

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