SUSY les Houches accord: Interfacing SUSY spectrum calculators, decay packages, and event generators

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 851-881

  Skands, Peter ^a   Allanach, Benjamin C ^b   Baer, Howard ^c   Balázs, Csaba ^c,d   Bélanger, Genevieve ^b   Boudjema, Fawzi ^b   Djouadi, Abdelhak ^e,f   Godbole, Rohini ^g   Guasch, Jaume ^h   Heinemeyer, Sven ^f,i   Kilian, Wolfgang ^j   Kneur, Jean Loic ^e   Kraml, Sabine ^f   Moortgat, Filip ^k   Moretti, Stefano ^l   Mühlleitner, Margarete ^h   Porod, Werner ^m   Pukhov, Alexander ⁿ   Richardson, Peter ^f,o   Schumann, Steffen ^p   Slavich, Pietro ^q   Spira, Michael ^h   Weiglein, Georg ^o   more..

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LAPTH   (France)

^c Florida State University   (United States)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^f CERN   (Switzerland)

^g INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^h PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^j DESY   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^l UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^m UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

ⁿ MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^o DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^p DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^q MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

Higgs Physics; Supersymmetric Standard Model; Supersymmetry Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044473643     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/07/036     Document Type: Article

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