Searching for degenerate Higgs bosons: A profile likelihood ratio method to test for mass-degenerate states in the presence of incomplete data and uncertainties

European Physical Journal C

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  David, André ^a   Heikkilä, Jaana ^a,b   Petrucciani, Giovanni ^a  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b HELSINKI INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Finland)

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EID: 84922160010     PISSN: 14346044     EISSN: 14346052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3279-y     Document Type: Letter

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