Searching for Lee-Wick gauge bosons at the LHC*

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Rizzo, Thomas G ^a  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Hadronic colliders

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547674858     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/06/070     Document Type: Article

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