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Selected Publications
For a complete list of faculty citations, please visit iRis, Northeastern’s digital archive.
Search for Resonances in the Dilepton Mass Distribution in pp collisions at √s = 7 Gev
(with S. Chatrchyan, et al.). JHEP 5:093, 2011.
Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in the Lepton+Jets Final State with the Matrix Element Method
(with V.M. Abazov et al.). Phys. Rev. D74:092005, 2006.
Measurement of the W Boson Helicity in Top Quark Decay at D0. By DØ Collaboration
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.75.031102
