A complete parton level analysis of boson-boson scattering and electroweak symmetry breaking in

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Ballestrero, Alessandro ^a   Bevilacqua, Giuseppe ^c   Maina, Ezio ^a,b  

^a SEZIONE DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Hadronic colliders; Standard model

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649565883     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/05/015     Document Type: Article

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