LHC signatures of vector-like quarks

Advances in High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Okada, Yasuhiro ^a,b   Panizzi, Luca ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARTICLE AND NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS;

CURRENT STATUS; FINAL STATE; MIXING PARAMETERS; MODEL INDEPENDENT; NEW PHYSICS; PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; SIMPLE++; STATE VECTOR; TEVATRON; THE STANDARD MODEL;

VECTORS;

EID: 84876516996     PISSN: 16877357     EISSN: 16877365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/364936     Document Type: Article

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