LHC bounds on lepton number violation mediated by doubly and singly-charged scalars

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Del Águila, Francisco ^a   Chala, Mikael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Higgs Physics; Neutrino Physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896785534     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2014)027     Document Type: Article

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