Using b-tagging to enhance the supersymmetry reach of the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1-7

  Mercadante, P G ^a   Mizukoshi, J K ^b   Tata, Xerxes ^c  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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EID: 33749159368     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.72.035009     Document Type: Article

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