Hunting long-lived gluinos at the Pierre Auger Observatory

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Anchordoqui, Luis A ^a   Delgado, Antonio ^b,c   García Canal, Carlos A ^d   Sciutto, Sergio J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

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EID: 38849137880     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.77.023009     Document Type: Article

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