Supersymmetric monojets at the Large Hadron Collider

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Allanach, Benjamin C ^a   Grab, Sebastian ^b   Haber, Howard E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Supersymmetry phenomenology

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EID: 80053111180     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2011)138     Document Type: Article

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