Light neutralino in the MSSM: A playground for dark matter, flavor physics and collider experiments

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Calibbi, Lorenzo ^a   Ota, Toshihiko ^a   Takanishi, Yasutaka ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Rare Decays; Supersymmetric Standard Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053153088     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2011)013     Document Type: Article

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