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Search for new fermions ("quirks") at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. / Collaboration, D0; Bertram, Iain; Borissov, Guennadi et al.
In: Physical review letters, Vol. 105, No. 21, 211803, 19.11.2010.

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Collaboration D, Bertram I, Borissov G, Fox H, Williams M, Ratoff P et al. Search for new fermions ("quirks") at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. Physical review letters. 2010 Nov 19;105(21):211803. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.211803

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Collaboration, D0 ; Bertram, Iain ; Borissov, Guennadi et al. / Search for new fermions ("quirks") at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. In: Physical review letters. 2010 ; Vol. 105, No. 21.

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