Secluded dark matter coupled to a hidden CFT

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Von Harling, Benedict ^a   McDonald, Kristian L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Phenomenology of field theories in higher dimensions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865799313     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2012)048     Document Type: Article

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