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Unitarization models describe phenomenologically the high energy behaviour of a strongly interacting symmetry breaking sector. In this work, predictions of some unitarized models in vector boson scattering at LHC are studied and compared with analogous studies in Equivalent Vector Boson Approximation and previous results for the benchmark no-Higgs scenario. To perform such studies, unitarized model amplitudes have been implemented in the PHANTOM Monte Carlo in a complete calculation with six fermions in the final state.
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Ballestrero, A., Franzosi, D.B., Oggero, L. et al. Vector boson scattering at the LHC: counting experiments for unitarized models in a full six fermion approach. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 31 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2012)031
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