Patterns of flavour violation in the presence of a fourth generation of quarks and leptons

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Buras, Andrzej J ^a   Duling, Björn ^a   Feldmann, Thorsten ^a   Heidsieck, Tillmann ^a   Promberger, Christoph ^a   Recksiegel, Stefan ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

B physics; Beyond Standard Model; Kaon physics; Rare decays

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649700453     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2010)106     Document Type: Article

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