√š min: A global inclusive variable for determining the mass scale of new physics in events with missing energy at hadron colliders

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Konar, Partha ^a   Kong, Kyoungchul ^b   Matchev, Konstantin T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Hadronic colliders; Supersymmetric standard model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856378267     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/03/085     Document Type: Article

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