Fine-tuning implications of direct dark matter searches in the MSSM

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Perelstein, Maxim ^a   Shakya, Bibhushan ^a  

^a Newman Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics   (United States)

Author keywords

Supersymmetry phenomenology

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EID: 81255211167     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2011)142     Document Type: Article

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