Detecting Higgs bosons in the bb̄ decay channel using forward proton tagging at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Cox, Brian E ^a   Loebinger, Fred ^a   Pilkington, Andy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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Hadron Hadron scattering

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EID: 35748971025     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/10/090     Document Type: Article

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