Axino dark matter and the CMSSM

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 63-82

  Covi, Laura ^a   Roszkowski, Leszek ^b   De Austri, Roberto Ruiz ^b   Small, Michael ^c  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c KPMG   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Dark Matter; Supersymmetric Effective Theories; Supersymmetric Standard Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044445765     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/06/003     Document Type: Article

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