Strong CP, flavor, and twisted split fermions

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1571-1594

  Harnik, Roni ^a,b   Perez, Gilad ^a   Schwartz, Matthew D ^a,b   Shirman, Yuri ^c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model, CP violation; Field Theories in Higher Dimensions

Indexed keywords

EID: 27344433843     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/03/068     Document Type: Article

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