Speedy Higgs boson discovery in decays to tau lepton pairs: H → ττ

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Barr, Alan J ^a   French, Sky T ^b   Frost, James A ^b   Lester, Christopher G ^b  

^a Denys Wilkinson Building ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; Higgs physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 81255144605     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2011)080     Document Type: Article

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