Flavor violating higgs decays

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Harnik, Roni ^a   Kopp, Joachim ^a,b   Zupan, Jure ^c  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Higgs Physics; Rare Decays

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876217587     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2013)026     Document Type: Article

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