Hidden Higgs decaying to lepton jets

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Falkowski, Adam ^a   Ruderman, Joshua T ^b   Volansky, Tomer ^c   Zupan, Jure ^d  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; Higgs physics; LEP HERA and SLC physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954979895     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2010)077     Document Type: Article

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