Color & weak triplet scalars, the dimuon asymmetry in Bs decay, the top forward-backward asymmetry, and the CDF dijet excess

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Vecchi, Luca ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

B Physics; Beyond Standard Model; CP violation; Hadronic Colliders

Indexed keywords

EID: 81155127431     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2011)003     Document Type: Article

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