The cosmology of composite inelastic dark matter

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Alves, Daniele S M ^a,b   Behbahani, Siavosh R ^a,b   Schuster, Philip ^a   Wacker, Jay G ^a  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Cosmology of theories beyond the sm; Technicolor and composite models

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954984779     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2010)113     Document Type: Article

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