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    "Yerevan Physics Institute",
    "Yerevan State University",
    "Institut für Hochenergiephysik",
    "TU Wien",
    "Universiteit Antwerpen",
    "Vrije Universiteit Brussel",
    "Ghent University",
    "Université Libre de Bruxelles"
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  "title": "Search for charged Higgs bosons decaying into top and bottom quarks in lepton+jets final states in proton-proton collisions at $$ \\sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV",
  "title_text": "Search for charged Higgs bosons decaying into top and bottom quarks in lepton+jets final states in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV",
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