8D likelihood effective Higgs couplings extraction framework in h → 4ℓ

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2015, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Chen, Yi ^a   Di Marco, Emanuele ^b   Lykken, Joe ^b   Spiropulu, Maria ^a   Vega Morales, Roberto ^b,c,d   Xie, Si ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hadron Hadron Scattering; Higgs physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922124916     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2015)125     Document Type: Article

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