Light stop searches at the LHC in events with one hard photon or jet and missing energy

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Carena, M ^a   Freitas, A ^b,c,d   Wagner, C E M ^c,d  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Supersymmetry henomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149303055     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/10/109     Document Type: Article

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