New approaches for boosting to uniformity

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Rogozhnikov, A ^a,b   Bukva, A ^c   Gligorov, V ^d   Ustyuzhanin, A ^b,e,f   Williams, M ^g  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b YANDEX   (Russian Federation)

^c Institute of Physics   (Serbia)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

^e MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis and statistical methods; Trigger algorithms

Indexed keywords

BOOSTING METHOD; INVARIANT MASS DISTRIBUTION; NEW APPROACHES; SIGNAL SELECTION; TRIGGER ALGORITHMS;

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EID: 84950308322     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/10/03/T03002     Document Type: Article

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