Supersymmetric top and bottom squark production at hadron colliders

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Beenakker, Wim ^a   Brensing, Silja ^b,c   Krämer, Michael ^b,d   Kulesza, Anna ^b   Laenen, Eric ^c,e,f   Niessen, Irene ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c NIKHEF   (Netherlands)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

QCD Phenomenology; Supersymmetry Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960973440     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2010)098     Document Type: Article

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