Higgs Decay to Top Quarks at Hadron Colliders
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چکیده
Higgs bosons which decay principally to top quarks, such as in the minimal supersymmetric model, produce a peak-dip structure in the gg → tt̄ invariant-mass spectrum. This structure is potentially observable at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.
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