Probing anomalous tbW couplings in single-top production using top polarization at the Large Hadron Collider

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Rindani, Saurabh D ^a   Sharma, Pankaj ^a  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Heavy quark physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84255176599     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2011)082     Document Type: Article

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