SUSY parameter determination at the LHC using cross sections and kinematic edges

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Dreiner, Herbi K ^a,b   Krämer, Michael ^c   Lindert, Jonas M ^c   O'Learyc, Ben ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Supersymmetry phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954948118     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2010)109     Document Type: Article

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