Prospects for top-prime quark discovery at the Tevatron

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Dobrescu, Bogdan A ^a   Kong, Kyoungchul ^a   Mahbubani, Rakhi ^a  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Hadronic colliders; Phenomenological models

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350003591     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/06/001     Document Type: Article

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