Dark matter and pseudo-flat directions in weakly coupled SUSY breaking sectors

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Keren Zur, Boaz ^a   Mazzucato, Luca ^b   Oz, Yaron ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Cosmology of theories beyond the SM; Supersymmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350022211     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/09/041     Document Type: Article

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