Reliability of Monte Carlo event generators for gamma-ray dark matter searches

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Cembranos, J A R ^a   De La Cruz Dombriz, A ^b,c   Gammaldi, V ^a   Lineros, R A ^d   Maroto, A L ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DE L ESPAI CSIC IEEC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA CORPUSCULAR IFIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo Simulations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884554113     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2013)077     Document Type: Article

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