R-parity preserving super-WIMP decays

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Pospelov, Maxim ^a,b   Trott, Michael ^a  

^a PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Cosmology of theories beyond the SM; Supersymmetric effective theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649550141     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/04/044     Document Type: Article

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