Measuring invisible particle masses using a single short decay chain

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Cheng, Hsin Chia ^a   Gu, Jiayin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Supersymmetry phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 81255177618     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2011)094     Document Type: Article

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