Rare and CP-violating K and B decays in the Littlest Higgs model with T-parity

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Blanke, Monika ^a,b   Buras, Andrzej J ^a   Poschenrieder, Anton ^a   Recksiegel, Stefan ^a   Tarantino, Cecilia ^a   Uhlig, Selma ^a   Weiler, Andreas ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

B Physics; Beyond standard model; Kaon physics; Rare decays

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947689217     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/01/066     Document Type: Article

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