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Dark Matter Searches at the LHC

  • Enrico MorganteEmail author
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Abstract

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, located at CERN. It consists of a 27-km ring of superconducting magnets with a number of accelerating structures to boost the energy of the particles.

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  1. 1.Deutsches Elektronen-SynchrotronHamburgGermany

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