Probing the stability of superheavy dark matter particles with high-energy neutrinos

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Esmaili, Arman ^a   Ibarra, Alejandro ^b   Peres, Orlando ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

dark matter theory; neutrino detectors; ultra high energy photons and neutrinos

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870276611     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/11/034     Document Type: Article

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