Non-resonant new physics in top pair production at hadron colliders

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Degrande, Céline ^a   Gérard, Jean Marc ^a   Grojean, Christophe ^b,c   Maltoni, Fabio ^a   Servant, Géraldine ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Hadronic colliders; Heavy quark physics; Phenomenological models

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053116711     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2011)125     Document Type: Article

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