A search for heavy Kaluza-Klein electroweak gauge bosons at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Bella, Gideon ^a   Etzion, Erez ^a   Hod, Noam ^a   Oz, Yaron ^a   Silver, Yiftah ^a   Sutton, Mark ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hadron hadron scattering

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EID: 78649696263     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2010)025     Document Type: Article

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