Search strategies for top partners in composite Higgs models

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Gripaios, Ben ^a   Müller, Thibaut ^a   Parker, M A ^a   Sutherland, Dave ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; Phenomenological Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84912099529     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2014)171     Document Type: Article

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