Dark matter sees the light

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Meade, Patrick ^a,b   Papucci, Michele ^a   Volansky, Tomer ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM

Indexed keywords

EID: 76149144394     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/12/052     Document Type: Article

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