General analysis of signals with two leptons and missing energy at the Large Hadron Collider

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Chen, Chien Yi ^a   Freitas, A ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Phenomenology of field theories in higher dimensions; Supersymmetry phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053129350     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2011)002     Document Type: Article

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