Probing the scattering of equivalent electroweak bosons

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Borel, Pascal ^a   Franceschini, Roberto ^a,b   Rattazzi, Riccardo ^a   Wulzer, Andrea ^c,d  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c SEZIONE DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Standard model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864216022     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2012)122     Document Type: Article

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