Formulation and constraints on decaying dark matter with finite mass daughter particles

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Aoyama, Shohei ^a   Ichiki, Kiyotomo ^a   Nitta, Daisuke ^a   Sugiyama, Naoshi ^a,b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

cosmological parameters from CMBR; cosmological parameters from LSS; cosmological perturbation theory; dark matter theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053536985     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/09/025     Document Type: Article

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