New physics signals in longitudinal gauge boson scattering at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Han, Tao ^a   Krohn, David ^b   Wang, Lian Tao ^b   Zhub, Wenhan ^b  

^a Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Hadronic colliders; Higgs physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954933634     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2010)082     Document Type: Article

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