Detecting exotic heavy leptons at the large hadron collider

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1-15

  Allanach, Ben C ^a   Harris, Christopher M ^b   Parker, M Andy ^b   Richardson, Peter ^b,c   Webber, Bryan R ^b  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Hadronic Colliders; Supersymmetric Standard Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044446080     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/08/051     Document Type: Article

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