Constraining dark sectors with monojets and dijets

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2015, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Chala, Mikael ^a   Kahlhoefer, Felix ^a   McCullough, Matthew ^b   Nardini, Germano ^a   Schmidt Hoberg, Kai ^a  

^a DESY   (Germany)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938248157     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2015)089     Document Type: Article

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