Where are the Fermi lines coming from?

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Rao, Kanishka ^a   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: 84875831083     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/03/035     Document Type: Article

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