A first top partner hunter's guide

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  De Simone, Andrea ^a,b   Matsedonskyi, Oleksii ^c   Rattazzi, Riccardo ^d   Wulzer, Andrea ^c,e  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c SEZIONE DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Phenomenological Models; Technicolor and Composite Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876350080     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2013)004     Document Type: Article

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