Testing gluino spin with three-body decays

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Csáki, Csaba ^a   Heinonen, Johannes ^a   Perelstein, Maxim ^a  

^a Newman Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics   (United States)

Author keywords

Large extra dimensions; Spin and polarization effects; Supersymmetry phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 35748952815     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/10/107     Document Type: Article

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