Collide and conquer: constraints on simplified dark matter models using mono-X collider searches

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2016, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Brennan, A J ^a   McDonald, M F ^a   Gramling, J ^b   Jacques, T D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dark matter; Hadron Hadron scattering (experiments)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84971207709     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2016)112     Document Type: Article

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