Towards a supersymmetric description of the Fermi Galactic center excess

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2015, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Cahill Rowley, M ^a   Gainer, J S ^b   Hewett, J L ^a   Rizzo, T G ^a  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Supersymmetry Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922772683     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2015)057     Document Type: Article

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