Stop decay into right-handed sneutrino LSP at hadron colliders

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  De Gouvêa, André ^a   Gopalakrishna, Shrihari ^a   Porod, Werner ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Supersymmetric Effective Theories; Supersymmetry Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846256687     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/11/050     Document Type: Review

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