Making the most othe relic density for dark matter searches at the LHC 14TeV Run

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2015, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Busoni, Giorgio ^a   De Simone, Andrea ^a   Jacques, Thomas ^b   Morgante, Enrico ^b   Riotto, Antonio ^b  

^a SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dark matter experiments; Dark matter theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84932623845     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2015/03/022     Document Type: Article

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