Multi-lepton signals from the top-prime quark at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Kong, Kyoungchul ^a   McCaskey, Mathew ^a   Wilson, Graham W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Hadronic Colliders; Phenomenological Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860289972     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2012)079     Document Type: Article

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