Sommerfeld enhancement of DM annihilation: Resonance structure, freeze-out and CMB spectral bound

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Hannestad, Steen ^a   Tram, Thomas ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dark Matter theory; Physics of the early universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551657043     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/01/016     Document Type: Article

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