Explaining the tt̄ forward-backward asymmetry without dijet or flavor anomalies

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Ligeti, Zoltan ^a   Tavares, Gustavo Marques ^b   Schmaltz, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Heavy quark physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053137102     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2011)109     Document Type: Article

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