General neutralino NLSPs at the early LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Ruderman, Joshua T ^a   Shih, David ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Supersymmetry phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865789802     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2012)159     Document Type: Article

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