Cosmological Relaxation of the Electroweak Scale

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 115, Issue 22, 2015, Pages

  Graham, Peter W ^a   Kaplan, David E ^a,b,c,d   Rajendran, Surjeet ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

DYNAMICAL EVOLUTION; EARLY UNIVERSE; ELECTROWEAK SCALE; HIERARCHY PROBLEM; HIGGS BOSON; NATURAL MODELS; PARTICLE CONTENT; THE STANDARD MODEL;

BOSONS;

EID: 84949292271     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.221801     Document Type: Article

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