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Third generation SUSY and t¯t +Z production

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In this Chapter a description of several tools that are common to the analyses in the following Chapters is given.

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    Light jets in this case include jets coming from gluons.

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McFayden, J. (2014). Analysis Tools. In: Third generation SUSY and t¯t +Z production. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07191-6_3

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