Reinstating the 'no-lose' theorem for NMSSM Higgs discovery at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Forshaw, J R ^a   Gunion, J F ^b   Hodgkinson, L ^a   Papaefstathiou, A ^a,c   Pilkington, A D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; QCD; Supersymmetry phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 44449155478     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/04/090     Document Type: Article

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