Gauge independent effective potential and the Higgs boson mass bound

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1999, Pages

  Lin, Guey Lin ^a   Chyi, Tzuu Kang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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EID: 17044400906     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.60.016002     Document Type: Article

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