A new look at Higgs constraints on stops

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Fan, Jiji ^a   Reece, Matthew ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Supersymmetry Phenomenology

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EID: 84904324344     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2014)031     Document Type: Article

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