Complementarity of dark matter searches in the phenomenological MSSM

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Cahill Rowley, M ^a   Cotta, R ^b   Drlica Wagner, A ^c   Funk, S ^a   Hewett, J L ^a   Ismail, A ^d,e   Rizzo, T G ^a   Wood, M ^a  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 84924370550     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.055011     Document Type: Article

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