Spectral and spatial variations of the diffuse γ-ray background in the vicinity of the Galactic plane and possible nature of the feature at 130 GeV

Physics of the Dark Universe

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 90-96

  Boyarsky, Alexey ^a,b   Malyshev, Denys ^b   Ruchayskiy, Oleg ^c  

^a UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

^b BOGOLYUBOV INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84879591825     PISSN: 22126864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dark.2013.04.001     Document Type: Article

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