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A U(1)’ Gauge Mediator

  • Enrico MorganteEmail author
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Abstract

As we saw in the previous chapters, simplified models are a useful tool to interpret LHC and other experiments’ data in terms of a minimal theory of Dark Matter, which contains only the relevant degrees of freedom that can be probed in our searches.

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  1. 1.Deutsches Elektronen-SynchrotronHamburgGermany

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