The fine-tuning cost of the likelihood in SUSY models

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 868, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 65-74

  Ghilencea, D M ^a,b   Ross, G G ^a,c  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b HORIA HULUBEI NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fine tuning to the electroweak scale; Likelihood function; Supersymmetric models in 4D

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870529213     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2012.11.007     Document Type: Article

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