Is double parton scattering useful?

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petergreat

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Jul 19, 2011

Is double parton scattering merely something of curiosity, or is it useful in the production of interesting particles (Higgs, top, B meson etc.)?

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Jul 19, 2011

Useful? You mean marketable? :)

It's important in understanding the backgrounds to various signals. For example, a background to, say a W + 2 jet signal would be a W produced by one scatter and the two jets by another.

Is double parton scattering useful?

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