A naturally light dilaton

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Coradeschi, Francesco ^a   Lodone, Paolo ^a   Pappadopulo, Duccio ^b,c   Rattazzi, Riccardo ^a   Vitale, Lorenzo ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Renormalization group; Space Time symmetries; Spontaneous symmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896290402     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2013)057     Document Type: Article

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