Finite-width effects on threshold corrections to squark and gluino production

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Falgari, P ^a   Schwinn, C ^b   Wever, C ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

NLO Computations; Supersymmetry Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872309661     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2013)085     Document Type: Article

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