Phenomenology and cosmology of an electroweak pseudo-dilaton and electroweak baryons

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Campbell, Bruce A ^a,b   Ellis, John ^b,c   Olive, Keith A ^d  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology of theories beyond the SM; Higgs physics; Technicolor and composite models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859588325     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2012)026     Document Type: Article

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