Missing momentum reconstruction and spin measurements at hadron colliders

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Cheng, Hsin Chia ^a   Han, Zhenyu ^b   Kim, Ian Woo ^c   Wang, Lian Tao ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin ^*  (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Phenomenology of field theories in higher dimensions; Supersymmetry phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649688895     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2010)122     Document Type: Article

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