Charge asymmetric cosmic rays as a probe of flavor violating asymmetric dark matter

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Masina, Isabella ^a,b   Sannino, Francesco ^b  

^a INFN SEZIONE DI FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

dark matter experiments; Dark matter theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053507744     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/09/021     Document Type: Article

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