Phenomenology of a very light scalar (100MeV < mh < 10 GeV) mixing with the SM Higgs

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Clarke, Jackson D ^a   Foot, Robert ^a   Volkas, Raymond R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; Phenomenological Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900851103     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2014)123     Document Type: Article

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