Cosmic rays from leptophilic dark matter decay via kinetic mixing

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Ibarra, Alejandro ^a   Ringwald, Andreas ^b   Tran, David ^a   Weniger, Christoph ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cosmic ray theory; Dark matter theory; Supersymmetry and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350032274     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/08/017     Document Type: Article

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