NMSSM explanations of the Galactic center gamma ray excess and promising LHC searches

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 91, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Guo, Jun ^a   Li, Jinmian ^b   Li, Tianjun ^a,c   Williams, Anthony G ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

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EID: 84929359077     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.095003     Document Type: Article

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