Panglossian prospects for detecting neutralino dark matter in light of natural priors?

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Allanach, Benjamin C ^a   Hooper, Dan ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NASA FERMILAB ASTROPHYSICS CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology of theories beyond the SM; Supersymmetric standard model

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149314368     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/10/071     Document Type: Article

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