Resonance searches with an updated top tagger

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2015, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1-34

  Kasieczka, Gregor ^a   Plehn, Tilman ^b   Schell, Torben ^b   Strebler, Thomas ^a   Salam, Gavin P ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUT FÜR THEORETISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Jets; QCD Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955271577     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2015)203     Document Type: Article

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