Lessons and prospects from the pMSSM after LHC Run i

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Cahill Rowley, M ^a   Hewett, J L ^b   Ismail, A ^c   Rizzo, T G ^a  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 84924353743     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.055002     Document Type: Article

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