Measuring the SUSY breaking scale at the LHC in the slepton NLSP scenario of GMSB models

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2001, Pages

  Ambrosanio, Sandro ^a   Mele, Barbara ^b,c   Petrarca, Silvano ^b,c   Polesello, Giacomo ^d   Rimoldi, Adele ^a,e  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI PAVIA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; Supersymmetric Standard Model; Supersymmetry Breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744891225     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/01/014     Document Type: Article

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