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 # Reference
 
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-* If you use this code, please cite:                                                                                                    *
-*   L. Bianchini, B. Calpas, J. Conway, A. Fowlie, L. Marzola, L. Perrini, C. Veelken,                                                  *
-*   "Reconstruction of the Higgs mass in events with Higgs bosons decaying into a pair of tau leptons using matrix element techniques", *
-*   Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 862 (2017) 54                                                                                                *
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+If you use this code, please cite:                                                                                                    
+   L. Bianchini, B. Calpas, J. Conway, A. Fowlie, L. Marzola, L. Perrini, C. Veelken,                                                  
+   "Reconstruction of the Higgs mass in events with Higgs bosons decaying into a pair of tau leptons using matrix element techniques", 
+   Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 862 (2017) 54                                                                                                
+