A general method for model-independent measurements of particle spins, couplings and mixing angles in cascade decays with missing energy at hadron colliders

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Burns, Michael ^a   Kong, Kyoungchul ^b   Matchev, Konstantin T ^a   Park, Myeonghun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Hadronic colliders; Supersymmetric standard model

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149280624     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/10/081     Document Type: Article

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