Higgs characterisation at NLO in QCD: CP properties of the top-quark Yukawa interaction

European Physical Journal C

Volumn 74, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Demartin, Federico ^a   Maltoni, Fabio ^a   Mawatari, Kentarou ^b   Page, Ben ^c   Zaro, Marco ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e LPTHE   (France)

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EID: 84920453663     PISSN: 14346044     EISSN: 14346052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3065-2     Document Type: Article

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