FCNC top quark production via anomalous tqV couplings beyond leading order

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 91-113

  Kidonakis, Nikolaos ^a   Belyaev, Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Hadronic Colliders; NLO Computations

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444442624     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/12/004     Document Type: Article

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