Exotic top partners and Little Higgs

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Kearney, John ^a   Pierce, Aaron ^a   Thaler, Jesse ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Higgs physics; Technicolor and composite models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892375026     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2013)230     Document Type: Article

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