Semi-annihilation of dark matter

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  D'eramo, Francesco ^a   Thaler, Jesse ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond standard model; Cosmology of theories beyond the sm

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954964359     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2010)109     Document Type: Article

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