Study of WIMP annihilations into a pair of on-shell scalar mediators

Physical Review D

Volumn 94, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Jia, Lian Bao ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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EID: 85000968661     PISSN: 24700010     EISSN: 24700029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.94.095028     Document Type: Article

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