Fermi 130 GeV gamma-ray excess and dark matter annihilation in sub-haloes and in the Galactic centre

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Tempel, Elmo ^a,b   Hektor, Andi ^a   Raidal, Martti ^a,c,d  

^a NICPB   (Estonia)

^b TARTU OBSERVATORY   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dark matter theory; Gamma ray experiments; Particle physics cosmology connection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866860024     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/09/032     Document Type: Article

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