Improving SUSY spectrum determinations at the LHC with the wedgebox technique

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Lu, Ran ^a   Bisset, Mike ^b   Kersting, Nick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Supersymmetry phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053164066     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2011)095     Document Type: Article

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