F-theory and the LHC: Stau search

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Heckman, Jonathan J ^a   Shao, Jing ^b   Vafa, Cumrun ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Strings and branes phenomenology; Supersymmetry phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649705539     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2010)020     Document Type: Article

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