Where the sidewalk ends: Jets and missing energy search strategies for the 7TeV LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Alves, Daniele S M ^a,b   Izaguirre, Eder ^a,b   Wacker, Jay G ^a,b  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Phenomenological Models; Supersymmetry Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 81155124318     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2011)012     Document Type: Article

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