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Identification of high transverse momentum top quarks in pp collisions at √s= 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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Identification of high transverse momentum top quarks in pp collisions at √s= 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. / The ATLAS collaboration.
In: Journal of High Energy Physics, No. 6, 93, 16.06.2016.

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The ATLAS collaboration 2016, 'Identification of high transverse momentum top quarks in pp collisions at √s= 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector', Journal of High Energy Physics, no. 6, 93. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2016)093

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The ATLAS collaboration (2016). Identification of high transverse momentum top quarks in pp collisions at √s= 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Journal of High Energy Physics, (6), Article 93. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2016)093

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The ATLAS collaboration. Identification of high transverse momentum top quarks in pp collisions at √s= 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2016 Jun 16;(6):93. doi: 10.1007/JHEP06(2016)093

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The ATLAS collaboration. / Identification of high transverse momentum top quarks in pp collisions at √s= 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2016 ; No. 6.

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title = "Identification of high transverse momentum top quarks in pp collisions at √s= 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector",
abstract = "This paper presents studies of the performance of several jet-substructure techniques, which are used to identify hadronically decaying top quarks with high transverse momentum contained in large-radius jets. The efficiency of identifying top quarks is measured using a sample of top-quark pairs and the rate of wrongly identifying jets from other quarks or gluons as top quarks is measured using multijet events collected with the ATLAS experiment in 20.3 fb−1 of 8 TeV proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. Predictions from Monte Carlo simulations are found to provide an accurate description of the performance. The techniques are compared in terms of signal efficiency and background rejection using simulations, covering a larger range in jet transverse momenta than accessible in the dataset. Additionally, a novel technique is developed that is optimized to reconstruct top quarks in events with many jets.",
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AU - Jones, Roger William Lewis

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