Exploring Drell-Yan signals from the 4D composite Higgs model at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Barducci, D ^a   Belyaev, A ^a   De Curtis, S ^b   Moretti, S ^a   Pruna, G M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Technicolor and Composite Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884547406     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2013)152     Document Type: Article

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