Top Partner Discovery in the T → tZ channel at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2015, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Reuter, Jürgen ^a   Tonini, Marco ^a  

^a DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo Simulations; Phenomenological Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924022262     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2015)088     Document Type: Article

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