Probing gravitino dark matter with PAMELA and Fermi

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Buchmüller, Wilfried ^a   Ibarra, Alejandro ^b   Shindou, Tetsuo ^c   Takayama, Fumihiro ^a   Tran, David ^b  

^a DESY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c KOGAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cosmic ray theory; Cosmology of theories beyond the SM; Dark matter theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350668457     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/09/021     Document Type: Article

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