Mixed sneutrino dark matter in light of the 2011 XENON and LHC results

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Dumont, Béranger ^a   Bélanger, Geneviève ^b   Fichet, Sylvain ^c   Kraml, Sabine ^a   Schwetz, Thomas ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER GRENOBLE 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dark matter experiments; Dark matter theory; Particle physics cosmology connection; Supersymmetry and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866287041     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/09/013     Document Type: Article

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