Narrow trans-TeV Higgs bosons and H → hh decays: Two LHC search paths for a hidden sector Higgs boson

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Bowen, Matthew T ^a,b   Cui, Yanou ^b   Wells, James D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Higgs physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947612633     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/03/036     Document Type: Article

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