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EWK Bosons and QCD

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Electroweak Physics at the LHC

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Many of the parameters of the electroweak interaction are known to high precision from previous experiments, particularly the LEP experiments and SLD.

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Mozer, M.U. (2016). EWK Bosons and QCD. In: Electroweak Physics at the LHC. Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, vol 267. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30381-9_4

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