Helicity formalism for spin-2 particles

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1-23

  Gleisberg, Tanju ^a,b   Krauss, Frank ^c   Matchev, Konstantin T ^b,d   Schälicke, Andreas ^a   Schumann, Steffen ^a   Soff, Gerhard ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

^d Newman Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Extra Large Dimensions; Models of Quantum Gravity

Indexed keywords

EID: 18344376121     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/09/001     Document Type: Article

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