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Electroweak Parameters

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Electroweak Physics at the LHC

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Precision measurement of the electroweak parameters at hadron colliders suffer from substantial uncertainty due to the composite initial state compared to studies at lepton colliders.

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Mozer, M.U. (2016). Electroweak Parameters. 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_5

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