Compressed electroweakino spectra at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Schwaller, Pedro ^a,b,c   Zurita, José ^d  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Supersymmetry Phenomenology

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EID: 84896468007     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2014)060     Document Type: Article

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