The fine-tuning price of neutralino dark matter in models with non-universal Higgs masses

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Ellis, John ^a   King, S F ^b   Roberts, J P ^c  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cosmology of theories beyond the SM; Supersymmetry phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 44449085509     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/04/099     Document Type: Article

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