Prospects and blind spots for neutralino dark matter

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Cheung, Clifford ^a   Hall, Lawrence J ^b   Pinner, David ^b   Ruderman, Joshua T ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Supersymmetry Phenomenology

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EID: 84878923864     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2013)100     Document Type: Article

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