Discovering the composite Higgs through the decay of a heavy fermion

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Vignaroli, Natascia ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Higgs physics; Technicolor and composite models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864449531     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2012)158     Document Type: Article

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