CMB photons shedding light on dark matter

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Giesen, Gaëlle ^a   Lesgourgues, Julien ^a,b,c   Audren, Benjamin ^a   Ali Haïmoud, Yacine ^d  

^a Fédérale de Lausanne   (Switzerland)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^d INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

CMBR theory; cosmological parameters from CMBR; particle physics cosmology connection; reionization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871811389     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/12/008     Document Type: Article

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