Unconstraining the unHiggs model

@article{Englert2012UnconstrainingTU,
  title={Unconstraining the unHiggs model},
  author={Christoph R. Englert and Michael Spannowsky and David Stancato and John Terning},
  journal={Physical Review D},
  year={2012},
  volume={85},
  pages={095003}
}
We investigate whether or not perturbative unitarity is preserved in the unHiggs model for the scattering process of heavy quarks and longitudinal gauge bosons q¯q→V+LV−L. With the Yukawa coupling given in the original formulation of the unHiggs model, the model preserves unitarity for unHiggs scaling dimensions d≤1.5. We examine the LHC phenomenology which is implied by the unHiggs model in this parameter range in detail and discuss to what extent the LHC can test d if an excess is measured in… 
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