A simple technique for combining simplified models and its application to direct stop production

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Barnard, James ^a   Farmer, Ben ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Supersymmetry Phenomenology

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EID: 84904299950     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2014)132     Document Type: Article

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