Decaying dark matter in light of the PAMELA and Fermi LAT data

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Ibarra, Alejandro ^a   Tran, David ^a   Weniger, Christoph ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cosmic ray theory; Dark matter theory; Gamma ray theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 73849123879     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/01/009     Document Type: Article

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