Resonances and unitarity in weak boson scattering at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Alboteanu, Ana ^a   Kilian, Wolfgang ^a   Reuter, Jürgen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Chiral lagrangians; Hadronic colliders; Spontaneous symmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149307875     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/11/010     Document Type: Article

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