Neutrino masses and mixing, lightest neutralino decays and a solution to the μ problem in supersymmetry

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Ghosh, Pradipta ^a   Roy, Sourov ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Supersymmetry phenomenology

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EID: 67649616825     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/04/069     Document Type: Article

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