Probing strongly interacting W's at the ILC with polarized beams

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Ananthanarayan, B ^a   Patra, Monalisa ^a   Poulose, P ^b,c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b DESY   (Germany)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

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EID: 84859608011     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2012)060     Document Type: Article

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