Here be dragons: The unexplored continents of the CMSSM

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Cohen, Timothy ^a   Wacker, Jay G ^a  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

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Supersymmetry Phenomenology

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EID: 84884760977     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2013)061     Document Type: Article

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