Fermi LAT search for internal bremsstrahlung signatures from dark matter annihilation

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Bringmann, Torsten ^a   Huang, Xiaoyuan ^b   Ibarra, Alejandro ^c   Vogl, Stefan ^c   Weniger, Christoph ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

dark matter experiments; dark matter theory; gamma ray experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864776748     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/07/054     Document Type: Article

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