A light NMSSM pseudoscalar Higgs boson at the LHC redux

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2015, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1-32

  Bomark, N E ^a   Moretti, S ^b   Munir, S ^c   Roszkowski, L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Supersymmetry Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923256714     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2015)044     Document Type: Article

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