The hierarchy problem and the self-localized Higgs

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Burgess, C P ^a,b,c   De Rham, Claudia ^a,b   Van Nierop, Leo ^b  

^a PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Field theories in higher dimensions; Higgs physics; Large extra dimensions

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749089124     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/08/061     Document Type: Article

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