A fermionic top partner: Naturalness and the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Berger, Joshua ^a   Hubisz, Jay ^b   Perelstein, Maxim ^a  

^a Newman Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Higgs physics; Technicolor and composite models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864493625     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2012)016     Document Type: Article

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