Search for a heavy Higgs boson decaying into a Z boson and another heavy Higgs boson in the bb final state in pp l l collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

http://sro.sussex.ac.uk The ATLAS Collaboration, , Abraham, N L, Allbrooke, B M M, Asquith, L, Cerri, A, Chavez Barajas, C A, De Santo, A, Jones, S D, Lerner, G, Miano, F, Salvatore, F, Santoyo Castillo, I, Shaw, K, Shehu, C Y, Stevenson, T et al. (2018) Search for a heavy Higgs boson decaying into a Z boson and another heavy Higgs boson in the llbb final state in pp collisions at √s =13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physics Letters B, 783. pp. 392-414. ISSN 0370-2693

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