Higgs boson enhancement effects on squark-pair production at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Arhrib, Abdesslam ^a,b   Benbrik, Rachid ^c,d   Cheung, Kingman ^e,f,g   Yuan, Tzu Chiang ^h  

^a ABDELMALEK ESSAADI UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d National Center for Theoretical Physics   (Taiwan)

^e Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^f NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^g NATIONAL CENTER FOR THEORETICAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^h INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Supersymmetry phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954921904     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2010)048     Document Type: Article

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