Strong upper limits on sterile neutrino warm dark matter

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Yüksel, Hasan ^a   Beacom, John F ^a   Watson, Casey R ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; MIXING;

DARK MATTER; GALACTIC CENTER REGION; GAMMA-RAY LINES; GRAVITATIONAL CLUSTERING; INTEGRAL SATELLITE; MIXING ANGLE; ORDERS-OF-MAGNITUDE; PARAMETER SPACES; RADIATIVE DECAYS; STERILE NEUTRINOS; UPPER LIMITS;

NEUTRONS;

EID: 52649117104     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.121301     Document Type: Article

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