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Search for charged Higgs bosons in the H$^{\pm}$ $\to$ $\tau^{\pm}\nu_\tau$ decay channel in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV

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Bibliographic reference Bakhshiansohi, Hamed ; Bondu, Olivier ; Bruno, Giacomo ; Caputo, Claudio ; David, Pieter ; et. al. Search for charged Higgs bosons in the H$^{\pm}$ $\to$ $\tau^{\pm}\nu_\tau$ decay channel in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV. In: Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 1907, p. 142 (2019)
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