511 keV photons from color superconducting dark matter

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2005, Pages

  Oaknin, David H ^a   Zhitnitsky, Ariel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DARK MATTER (DM); ELECTRON POSITRON ANNHILATION PROCESSES; ENERGY DENSITIES; NUCLEOSYNTHESIS;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ENTROPY; GALAXIES; GAMMA RAYS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PHOTONS; POSITRONS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 18044370851     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.101301     Document Type: Review

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