If no Higgs then what?

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Falkowski, A ^a   Grojean, C ^b,c   Kaminska A ^d   Pokorski, S ^b,d   Weiler, A ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c CEA SACLAY   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^e DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chiral lagrangians; Hadronic colliders; Technicolor and composite models

Indexed keywords

EID: 81255197456     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2011)028     Document Type: Article

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