Vacuum stability and the MSSM Higgs mass

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Blinov, Nikita ^a,b   Morrissey, David E ^a  

^a TRIUMF   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Supersymmetric Standard Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901355946     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2014)106     Document Type: Article

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