Improved sensitivity to charged Higgs searches in top quark decays t→bH+→b(τ+ντ) at the LHC using τ polarisation and multivariate techniques

European Physical Journal C

Volumn 71, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1-19

  Ali, Ahmed ^a   Barreiro, Fernando ^b   Llorente, Javier ^b  

^a DESY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

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EID: 82655176825     PISSN: 14346044     EISSN: 14346052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1737-8     Document Type: Article

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