Long-lived heavy quarks: A review

Advances in High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Buchkremer, Mathieu ^a   Schmidt, Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS METHOD; BOUND-STATES; HADRONICS; HEAVY-QUARK; SCHMIDT; SIMPLE++; THE STANDARD MODEL;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES;

EID: 84877302144     PISSN: 16877357     EISSN: 16877365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/690254     Document Type: Review

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