Gamma-ray lines from radiative dark matter decay

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Garny, Mathias ^a   Ibarra, Alejandro ^a   Tran, David ^a   Weniger, Christoph ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cosmic ray theory; Dark matter theory; Gamma ray theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551667391     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/01/032     Document Type: Article

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