Toward a minimum branching fraction for dark matter annihilation into electromagnetic final states

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Dent, James B ^a   Scherrer, Robert J ^a   Weiler, Thomas J ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 51849144619     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.78.063509     Document Type: Article

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