Beyond effective field theory for dark matter searches at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Buchmueller, O ^a   Dolan, Matthew J ^b   McCabe, Christopher ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exotics; Hadron Hadron Scattering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892429720     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/Jhep01(2014)025     Document Type: Article

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