Constraints on WIMP and Sommerfeld-enhanced dark matter annihilation from HESS observations of the galactic center

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Abazajian, Kevork N ^a   Harding, J Patrick ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

dark matter experiments; dark matter theory; gamma ray experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856683131     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/01/041     Document Type: Article

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