Gravitino dark matter scenarios with massive metastable charged sparticles at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Ellis, John R ^a   Raklev, Are R ^a,b   Øye, Ola K ^b  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Supersymmetric Standard Model; Supersymmetry Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846150034     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/10/061     Document Type: Review

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