Strong double Higgs production at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Contino, Roberto ^a,b   Grojean, Christophe ^b,c   Moretti, Mauro ^d   Piccinini, Fulvio ^e   Rattazzi, Riccardo ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c CEA SACLAY   (France)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI FERRARA   (Italy)

^e INFN SEZIONE DI PAVIA   (Italy)

^f EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Higgs physics; Technicolor and composite models

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954988768     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2010)089     Document Type: Article

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