Phenomenology of dark matter annihilation into a long-lived intermediate state

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Rothstein, Ira Z ^a   Schwetz, Thomas ^b   Zupan, Jure ^c,d  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Cosmic ray experiments; Dark matter theory; Gamma ray experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350668568     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/07/018     Document Type: Article

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