Hunting dark matter gamma-ray lines with the Fermi LAT

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Vertongen, Gilles ^a   Weniger, Christoph ^b  

^a DESY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

dark matter experiments; Dark matter theory; gamma ray experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957962683     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/05/027     Document Type: Article

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