Measurement of electrons from heavy-flavour hadron decays in p-Pb collisions at
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- 作者：ALICE Collaboration
- 刊名：Physics Letters B
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：10 March 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：754
- 期：Complete
- 页码：81-93
- 全文大小：1205 K
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