Extreme technicolor & the walking critical temperature

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Järvinen, Matti ^a,b   Sannino, Francesco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b CP3 Origins ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Spontaneous symmetry breaking; Technicolor and composite models

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053269214     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2011)081     Document Type: Article

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