Hunting for dark matter coannihilation by mixing dijet resonances and missing transverse energy

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2016, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Buschmann, Malte ^a   El Hedri, Sonia ^a   Kaminska, Anna ^a   Liu, Jia ^a   de Vries, Maikel ^a   Wang, Xiao Ping ^a   Yu, Felix ^a   Zurita, José ^b,c  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Phenomenological Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986607565     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2016)033     Document Type: Article

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