Gamma lines without a continuum: Thermal models for the Fermi-LAT 130 GeV Gamma line

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Bai, Yang ^a,b   Shelton, Jessie ^c  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin ^*  (United States)

^c Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Keywords: Beyond Standard Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878588813     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP12(2012)056     Document Type: Article

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