Conservative constraints on dark matter from the Fermi-LAT isotropic diffuse gamma-ray background spectrum

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Abazajian, Kevork N ^a   Agrawal, Prateek ^a   Chackoa, Zackaria ^a   Kilic, Can ^b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark matter simulations; Dark matter theory; Gamma ray experiments; Gamma ray theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649813999     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/11/041     Document Type: Article

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