A new approach for reconstructing SUSY particle masses with a few fb -1 at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Djilkibaev, Rashid M ^a,c   Konoplich, Rostislav V ^a,b  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MANHATTAN COLLEGE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; Supersymmetry phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650993675     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/08/036     Document Type: Article

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