Discerning new physics in tt̄ production using top spin observables at hadron colliders

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Fajfer, Svjetlana ^a,b   Kamenik, Jernej F ^a,b   Melić, Blazenka ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^c RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Heavy Quark Physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865710122     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2012)114     Document Type: Article

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