Extracting gluino endpoints with event topology patterns

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Pietsch, Niklas ^a   Reuter, Jürgen ^b   Sakurai, Kazuki ^b   Wiesler, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Supersymmetry phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864445100     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2012)148     Document Type: Article

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