Dilaton dominance relaxes LHC and cosmological constraints in supersymmetric models

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Lahanas, A B ^a   Spanos, Vassilis C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Supersymmetry phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864187741     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2012)089     Document Type: Article

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