Lepton Number Violation in Higgs Decay at LHC

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Maiezza, Alessio ^a   Nemevšek, Miha ^b   Nesti, Fabrizio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^c RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES;

COLLIDER; DILEPTONS; DIRECT SEARCH; HIGGS BOSON; LEPTON NUMBER VIOLATIONS; LEPTON-NUMBER-VIOLATING DECAY; MAJORANA NEUTRINO MASS; SYMMETRIC MODEL;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 84940770311     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.081802     Document Type: Article

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