LHC discovery potential for non-standard Higgs bosons in the 3b channel

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Carena, Marcela ^a,b,c   Gori, Stefania ^a,d   Juste, Aurelio ^e   Menon, Arjun ^f   Wagner, Carlos E M ^a,c,d   Wang, Lian Tao ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e BARCELONA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Supersymmetry phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864458376     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2012)091     Document Type: Article

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