PAMELA, DAMA, INTEGRAL and signatures of metastable excited WIMPs

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Finkbeiner, Douglas P ^a   Slatyer, Tracy R ^b   Weiner, Neal ^c   Yavin, Itay ^d  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark matter experiments; Dark matter theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350641676     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/09/037     Document Type: Article

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