Reconstructing sparticle mass spectra using hadronic decays

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Butterworth, Jonathan M ^a   Ellis, John R ^b   Raklev, Are R ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; Jets; Supersymmetry phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547611408     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/05/033     Document Type: Article

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