Looking for an invisible Higgs signal at the LHC

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

Volumn 725, Issue 4-5, 2013, Pages 344-351

  Ghosh, Diptimoy ^a   Godbole, Rohini ^b   Guchait, Monoranjan ^c   Mohan, Kirtimaan ^b   Sengupta, Dipan ^c  

^a INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA   (Italy)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^c TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

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EID: 84883050744     PISSN: 03702693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2013.07.042     Document Type: Article

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