Searching for direct stop production in hadronic top data at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Kaplan, David E ^a   Rehermann, Keith ^b   Stolarski, Daniel ^a,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Supersymmetry phenomenology

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EID: 84864429659     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2012)119     Document Type: Article

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