Angular correlations in top quark pair production and decay at hadron colliders

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 4886-4896

  Mahlon, Gregory ^a   Parke, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0000411269     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.53.4886     Document Type: Article

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