Discovery reach for generic supersymmetry at the LHC: MT2 versus missing transverse momentum selections for pMSSM searches

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Allanach, Benjamin C ^a   Barr, Alan J ^b   Dafincab, Alexandru ^b   Gwenlanb, Claire ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Supersymmetry phenomenology

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EID: 80053246699     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2011)104     Document Type: Article

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