Top-antitop and top-top resonances in the dilepton channel at the CERN LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Bai, Yang ^a   Han, Zhenyu ^b  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Phenomenology of field theories in higher dimensions

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EID: 67649613307     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/04/056     Document Type: Article

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