Low-mass higgs bosons in the NMSSM and their LHC implications

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Christensen, Neil ^a   Han, Tao ^a   Liu, Zhen ^a   Su, Shufang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

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Supersymmetry Phenomenology

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EID: 84881275592     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2013)019     Document Type: Article

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