Signatures of top flavour-changing dark matter

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2016, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  D’Hondt, Jorgen ^a   Mariotti, Alberto ^a   Mawatari, Kentarou ^a,b   Moortgat, Seth ^a   Tziveloglou, Pantelis ^a   Van Onsem, Gerrit ^a,c  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961257011     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2016)060     Document Type: Article

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