Top quarks as a window to string resonances

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Dong, Zhe ^a   Han, Tao ^a   Huang, Min Xin ^b   Shiu, Gary ^a,c  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Phenomenological models; Strings and branes phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649691386     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2010)048     Document Type: Article

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