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Search for Flavor-Changing Neutral Current Top Quark Decays t → Hq, with H → bb̅ , in pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS Detector

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This Chapter describes in details the systematic uncertainties considered in the analysis.

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Tsiskaridze, S. (2017). Systematic Uncertainties. In: Search for Flavor-Changing Neutral Current Top Quark Decays t → Hq, with H → bb̅ , in pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS Detector. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63414-2_7

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