Antiproton constraints on dark matter annihilations from internal electroweak bremsstrahlung

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Garny, Mathias ^a   Ibarra, Alejandro ^a   Vogl, Stefan ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

cosmic ray theory; cosmology of theories beyond the SM; dark matter theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961235091     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/07/028     Document Type: Article

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