Measurement of the production cross section, the top quark mass, and the strong coupling constant using dilepton

A M Sirunyan1, A Tumasyan1, W Adam2

  • 1Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia.

The European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields
|June 1, 2019
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