Supersymmetry discovery potential of the LHC at √s=10 and 14TeV without and with missing E T

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Baer, Howard ^a   Barger, Vernon ^b   Lessa, Andre ^a   Tata, Xerxes ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Supersymmetry phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950568180     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/09/063     Document Type: Article

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