How well can the LHC distinguish between the SM light higgs scenario,a composite higgs and the higgsless case using VV scattering channels?

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Ballestrero, Alessandro ^a,b   Bevilacqua, Giuseppe ^d   Franzosi, Diogo Buarque ^a,b,c   Maina, Ezio ^a,b,c  

^a SEZIONE DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b Università di Torino ^*  (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^d INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Standard model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996593871     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/11/126     Document Type: Article

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