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Title: Search for new light gauge bosons in Higgs boson decays to four-lepton final states in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Journal Article · · Physical Review D

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
DOE Contract Number:
SC0012704
OSTI ID:
1227851
Report Number(s):
BNL-111626-2015-JA; KA1101021
Journal Information:
Physical Review D, Vol. 92, Issue 9; ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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