QCD effects in mono-jet searches for dark matter

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Haisch, Ulrich ^a,b   Kahlhoefer, Felix ^a,b   Re, Emanuele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

NLO computations; Phenomenological models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896540024     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP12(2013)007     Document Type: Article

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