Disentangling instrumental features of the 130 GeV Fermi line

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Whiteson, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

dark matter detectors; dark matter experiments; gamma ray detectors; gamma ray experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870288834     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/11/008     Document Type: Article

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