Identifying dark matter event topologies at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Baia, Yang ^a   Cheng, Hsin Chia ^b  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Supersymmetric Standard Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053115185     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2011)021     Document Type: Article

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