Exploring compressed supersymmetry with same-sign top quarks at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Martin, Stephen P ^a,b,c  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 53349160647     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.78.055019     Document Type: Article

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