Cosmological constraints on decaying dark matter

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  De Lope Amigo, Santiago ^a   Cheung, William Man Yin ^a   Huang, Zhiqi ^a,b   Ng, Siew Phang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cosmology of theories beyond the SM; Dark matter

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350690537     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/06/005     Document Type: Article

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