Probing top-partners in Higgs+jets

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Banfi, Andrea ^a   Martin, Adam ^b,c   Sanz, Verónica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Higgs Physics; Technicolor and Composite Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906082386     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2014)053     Document Type: Article

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