The little skyrmion: New dark matter for little Higgs models

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Gillioz, Marc ^a   Manteuffel, Andreas ^a   Schwaller, Pedro ^a,b,c   Wyler, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Solitons monopoles and instantons; Technicolor and composite models

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053183484     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2011)048     Document Type: Article

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