Benchmarks for dark matter searches at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  De Simone, Andrea ^a   Giudice, Gian Francesco ^b,c   Strumia, Alessandro ^d,e  

^a SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c INTERNATIONAL SOLVAY INSTITUTES   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS AND BIOPHYSICS   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904330102     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2014)081     Document Type: Article

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