Light neutralino dark matter in the MSSM and its implication for LHC searches for staus

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Bélanger, Geneviève ^a   Biswas, Sanjoy ^b   Bœhm, Céline ^a,c   Mukhopadhyaya, Biswarup ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d HARISH CHANDRA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Supersymmetry Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878518986     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP12(2012)076     Document Type: Article

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