Mono-W dark matter signals at the LHC: Simplified model analysis

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2016, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Bell, Nicole F ^a   Cai, Yi ^a   Leane, Rebecca K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

dark matter experiments; dark matter theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84956656169     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/01/051     Document Type: Article

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