Capability of LHC to discover supersymmetry with √s =7TeV and 1 fb -1

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Baer, Howard ^a   Barger, Vernon ^b   Lessa, Andre ^a   Tata, Xerxes ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Supersymmetry phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856393562     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2010)102     Document Type: Article

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