A new probe of dark sector dynamics at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2015, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Gupta, Arpit ^a   Primulando, Reinard ^a,b   Saraswat, Prashant ^a,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PARAHYANGAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^c University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942109297     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2015)079     Document Type: Article

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