Dark matter with a late decaying dark partner

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Fairbairn, Malcolm ^a,b   Zupan, Jure ^b,c,d  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350700714     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/07/001     Document Type: Article

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