Measurement of the rate of bb̄bb̄ events in hadronic Z decays and the extraction of the gluon splitting into bb̄

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

Volumn 462, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 425-439

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EID: 2442426015     PISSN: 03702693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0370-2693(99)00905-3     Document Type: Article

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