Constraining SUSY Dark Matter with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1647-1659

  Polesello, Giacomo ^a   Tovey, Daniel R ^b  

^a INFN SEZIONE DI PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dark Matter; Supersymmetric Standard Model; Supersymmetry Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044468391     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/05/071     Document Type: Article

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