Dark matter from minimal flavor violation

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Batell, Brian ^a   Pradler, Josef ^a   Spannowsky, Michael ^b  

^a PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Global Symmetries; Hadronic Colliders

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053155044     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2011)038     Document Type: Article

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