Window on the Higgs boson: Fourth generation b′ decays reexamined

Physical Review D

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2001, Pages

  Arhrib, Abdesslam ^a   Hou, Wei Shu ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BOSON; COSMIC RADIATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; ENERGY; MODEL; QUARK; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY;

EID: 0035478817     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.64.073016     Document Type: Article

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