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Supersymmetric Hints from Precision Electroweak Data?

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 نشر من قبل Howard Haber
 تاريخ النشر 1996
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 تأليف Howard E. Haber




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The Standard Model does not provide a very good fit to the most recent precision electroweak data from LEP, due primarily to the observed branching ratios for $Z$ decay to $bbar b$ and $cbar c$. The possibility that an extension of the Standard Model with low-energy supersymmetry can improve the agreement between data and theory is considered.

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