Single- and multi-photon final states with missing energy at e+e- colliders

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 541, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 31-49

  Montagna, G ^a   Moretti, M ^b,c   Nicrosini, O ^a   Piccinini, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electron positron collisions; Irreducible background; Missing energy; New physics searches; Radiative corrections; Visible photons

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033593768     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00795-0     Document Type: Article

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