The importance of tau leptons for supersymmetry searches at the tevatron

Modern Physics Letters A

Volumn 13, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 1923-1930

  Wells, James D ^a  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0007365635     PISSN: 02177323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0217732398002035     Document Type: Article

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