Gaugino production in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Fuks, Benjamin ^a   Klasen, Michael ^b   Lamprea, David R ^b   Rothering, Marcel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Monte carlo simulations; Supersymmetry phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868292288     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2012)081     Document Type: Article

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