Slepton discovery in electroweak cascade decay

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Eckel, Jonathan ^a   Shepherd, William ^b   Su, Shufang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Supersymmetry phenomenology

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EID: 84861860428     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2012)081     Document Type: Article

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