Robust collider limits on heavy-mediator Dark Matter

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2015, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Racco, Davide ^a   Wulzer, Andrea ^b   Zwirner, Fabio ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; Supersymmetry Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928958212     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2015)009     Document Type: Article

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