Unitarity and vacuum stability constraints on the couplings of color octet scalars

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  He, Xiao Gang ^a,b,c   Phoon, Han ^d   Tang, Yong ^a   Valencia, German ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR THEORETICAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electroweak interaction; Hadron Hadron Scattering; Higgs physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877697774     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2013)026     Document Type: Article

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