Simplified dark matter top-quark interactions at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2015, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Haisch, Ulrich ^a,b   Re, Emanuele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hadronic Colliders; Phenomenological Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934951883     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2015)078     Document Type: Article

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