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Search for Flavor-Changing Neutral Current Top Quark Decays t → Hq, with H → bb̅ , in pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS Detector pp 59–71Cite as

Event Simulation

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In this chapter, a brief overview of the simulation of pp collisions is presented, followed by a description of the MC generators, the ATLAS detector simulation, and the corrections applied to the MC simulation to improve the agreement with data.

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Tsiskaridze, S. (2017). Event Simulation. In: Search for Flavor-Changing Neutral Current Top Quark Decays t → Hq, with H → bb̅ , in pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS Detector. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63414-2_3

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