Constraints on Nc in extensions of the standard model

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Shrock, Robert ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34748898512     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.76.055010     Document Type: Article

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