Top condensation as a motivated explanation of the top forward-backward asymmetry

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Cui, Yanou ^a   Han, Zhenyu ^a   Schwartz, Matthew D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; Heavy quark physics; Phenomenological models; Technicolor and composite models

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053156757     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2011)127     Document Type: Article

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