Isolating a light Higgs boson from the diphoton background at the CERN LHC

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2002, Pages

  Schmidt, Carl ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; CALCULATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTON; REACTION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 17744419306     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.66.074018     Document Type: Article

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