New angles on top quark decay to a charged Higgs

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Eriksson, David ^a   Ingelman, Gunnar ^a   Rathsman, Johan ^a   Stal, Oscar ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Hadronic colliders; Higgs physics; Spin and polarization effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949148564     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/01/024     Document Type: Article

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