Old and new physics interpretations of the NuTeV anomaly

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 749-775

  Davidson, Sacha ^a,b   Forte, Stefane ^c,e   Gambino, Paolo ^d   Rius, Nuria ^a   Strumia, Alessandro ^d,f  

^a INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA CORPUSCULAR IFIC   (Spain)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA   (Italy)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

^e SEZIONE DI TORINO   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Deep Inelastic Scattering; LEP HERA and SLC Physics; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044493802     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/02/037     Document Type: Article

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