The last vestiges of naturalness

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Arvanitaki, Asimina ^a   Baryakhtar, Masha ^a   Huang, Xinlu ^a   Van Tilburg, Ken ^a   Villadoro, Giovanni ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Supersymmetric Standard Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896693482     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2014)022     Document Type: Article

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