Implications for constrained supersymmetry of combined H.E.S.S. observations of dwarf galaxies, the Galactic halo and the Galactic Centre

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Ripken, Joachim ^a   Conrad, Jan ^a   Scott, Pat ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

dark matter theory; dwarfs galaxies; gamma ray experiments; supersymmetry and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 82955177079     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/11/004     Document Type: Article

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