Bottom-quark forward-backward asymmetry, dark matter, and the LHC

Physical Review D

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2018, Pages

  Liu, Da ^a   Liu, Jia ^b   Wagner, Carlos E M ^a,b,c   Wang, Xiao Ping ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 85044864102     PISSN: 24700010     EISSN: 24700029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.97.055021     Document Type: Article

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