Model-independent searches for new quarks at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Atre, Anupama ^a,b   Azuelos, Georges ^c,d   Carena, Marcela ^a,e   Han, Tao ^f   Ozcan, Erkcan ^g,h   Santiago, José ⁱ   Unel, Gokhan ^j  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d TRIUMF   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Hadronic Colliders; Phenomenological Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053150963     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2011)080     Document Type: Article

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