Implications of the Fermi-LAT diffuse gamma-ray measurements on annihilating or decaying dark matter

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Hütsi, Gert ^a   Hektor, Andi ^b   Raidal, Martti ^b,c  

^a TARTU OBSERVATORY   (Estonia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS AND BIOPHYSICS   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Dark matter theory; Gamma ray experiments; Gamma ray theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955363591     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/07/008     Document Type: Article

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