Revisiting slepton pair production at the Large Hadron Collider

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Fuks, Benjamin ^a,b   Klasen, Michael ^c   Lamprea, David R ^c   Rothering, Marcel ^c  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

NLO Computations; Supersymmetry Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893827992     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2014)168     Document Type: Article

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