Cornering light neutralino dark matter at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Calibbi, Lorenzo ^a   Lindert, Jonas M ^b,e   Ota, Toshihiko ^c   Takanishi, Yasutaka ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^c SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Supersymmetry phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892704637     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/Jhep10(2013)132     Document Type: Article

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