On the interpretation of Top Partners searches

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Matsedonskyi, Oleksii ^a   Panico, Giuliano ^b   Wulzer, Andrea ^c  

^a SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c SEZIONE DI PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Technicolor and Composite Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919683837     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP12(2014)097     Document Type: Article

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