Electroweak limits on general new vector bosons

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Del Aguila, F ^a   De Blas, J ^a   Perez Victoria M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; GUT; Higgs physics; LEP HERA and SLC physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449292629     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2010)033     Document Type: Article

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