Resonance at 125 GeV: Higgs or dilaton/radion?

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Chacko, Zackaria ^a   Franceschini, Roberto ^a   Mishra, Rashmish K ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

Higgs Physics; Technicolor and Composite Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876369522     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2013)015     Document Type: Article

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