Precise reconstruction of sparticle masses without ambiguities

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Matchev, Konstantin T ^a   Moortgat, Filip ^b   Pape, Luc ^b   Park, Myeonghun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Supersymmetry phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350068005     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/08/104     Document Type: Article

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