Pulling out all the stops: Searching for RPV SUSY with stop-jets

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Bai, Yang ^a   Katz, Andrey ^b   Tweedie, Brock ^c,d  

^a Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c USA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Jets; Supersymmetry Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892376671     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2014)040     Document Type: Article

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