LHC sensitivity to lepton flavour violating Z boson decays

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Davidson, Sacha ^a   Lacroix, Sylvain ^a   Verdier, Patrice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Phenomenological models; Rare decays

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866862035     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2012)092     Document Type: Article

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