Gaining (mutual) information about quark/gluon discrimination

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Larkoski, Andrew J ^a   Thaler, Jesse ^a   Waalewijn, Wouter J ^b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NIKHEF   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Jets; QCD Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920145134     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2014)129     Document Type: Article

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