Long-lived neutralino NLSPs

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Meade, Patrick ^a   Reece, Matthew ^b   Shih, David ^c,d  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^d State University of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Supersymmetry phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649692414     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2010)067     Document Type: Article

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