On Higgs inflation and naturalness

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Burgess, C P ^a,b   Lee, H M ^c   Trott, Michael ^a  

^a PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cosmology of theories beyond the sm; Higgs physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954965239     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2010)007     Document Type: Article

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