PAMELA and FERMI limits on the neutralino-chargino mass degeneracy

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Bélanger, Geneviève ^a   Bœhm, Céline ^a,b   Cirelli, Marco ^c,d   Da Silva, Jonathan ^a   Pukhov, Alexander ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

^d DIF   (France)

^e MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

cosmic ray experiments; dark matter theory; gamma ray experiments; particle physics cosmology connection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870288800     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/11/028     Document Type: Article

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