Fourth family neutrinos and the Higgs boson at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Uhadar Donszelmann T ^a   Karagoz Nel M ^b   Zcan, V E ^c   Sultansoy, S ^d,e   Onel G ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d TOBB UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

^e INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Azerbaijan)

^f CERN   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Standard model

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149293815     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/10/074     Document Type: Article

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