Effective operators and vacuum instability as heralds of new physics

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 883-896

  Burgess, Clifford P ^a   Di Clemente, Vicente ^b   Espinosa, Jose Ramón ^c,d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO DE MATEMÁTICAS Y FÍSICA FUNDAMENTAL   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Higgs Physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044494648     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/01/041     Document Type: Article

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