Search for heavy Higgs bosons A / H decaying to a top quark pair in pp collisions at √ s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

A search for heavy pseudoscalar (A) and scalar (H) Higgs bosons decaying into a top quark pair (t (t) over bar) has been performed with 20.3 fb(-1) of proton-proton collision data collected by the ...

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