Dilepton and four-lepton signals at the LHC In the Littlest Higgs model with T-parity violation

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Mukhopadhyay, Satyanarayan ^a   Mukhopadhyaya, Biswarup ^a   Nyffeler, Andreas ^a  

^a HARISH CHANDRA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Discrete and finite symmetries; Hadronic colliders; Technicolor and composite models

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954998588     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2010)001     Document Type: Article

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