Gamma-ray constraints on hadronic and leptonic activities of decaying dark matter

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Chen, Chuan Ren ^a   Mandal, Sourav K ^a,b   Takahashi, Fuminobu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmic ray theory; Dark matter theory; Gamma ray experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 76149089561     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/01/023     Document Type: Article

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