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Search for charginos nearly mass degenerate with the lightest neutralino in e+ e- collisions at center-of-mass energies up to 209-GeV

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Search for charginos nearly mass degenerate with the lightest neutralino in e+ e- collisions at center-of-mass energies up to 209-GeV. / ALEPH Collaboration, The; Heister, A.; Bouhova-Thacker, Evelina et al.
In: Physics Letters B, Vol. 533, No. 3-4, 09.05.2002, p. 223-236.

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ALEPH Collaboration T, Heister A, Bouhova-Thacker E, Bowdery C, Finch A, Foster F et al. Search for charginos nearly mass degenerate with the lightest neutralino in e+ e- collisions at center-of-mass energies up to 209-GeV. Physics Letters B. 2002 May 9;533(3-4):223-236. doi: 10.1016/S0370-2693(02)01584-8

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ALEPH Collaboration, The ; Heister, A. ; Bouhova-Thacker, Evelina et al. / Search for charginos nearly mass degenerate with the lightest neutralino in e+ e- collisions at center-of-mass energies up to 209-GeV. In: Physics Letters B. 2002 ; Vol. 533, No. 3-4. pp. 223-236.

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abstract = "A search for charginos nearly mass degenerate with the lightest neutralino is performed with the data collected by the ALEPH detector at LEP, at centre-of-mass energies between 189 and 209 GeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 628 pb−1. The analysis is based on the detection of isolated and energetic initial state radiation photons, produced in association with chargino pairs whose decay products have little visible energy. The number of candidate events observed is in agreement with that expected from Standard Model background sources. These results are combined with those of other direct searches for charginos, and a lower limit of 88 GeV/c2 at 95% confidence level is derived for the chargino mass in the case of heavy sfermions, irrespective of the chargino-neutralino mass difference.",
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AU - Heister, A.

AU - Bouhova-Thacker, Evelina

AU - Bowdery, Christopher

AU - Finch, Alexander

AU - Foster, Frank

AU - Hughes, Gareth

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AU - Smizanska, Maria

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