Reconciling neutralino relic density with Yukawa unified supersymmetric models

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2295-2318

  Auto, Daniel ^a   Baer, Howard ^a   Belyaev, Alexander ^a   Krupovnickas, Tadas ^a  

^a Florida State University   (United States)

Author keywords

GUT; Hadronic Colliders; Supersymmetric Standard Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044480411     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/10/066     Document Type: Article

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