Are IceCube neutrinos unveiling PeV-scale decaying dark matter?

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Esmaili, Arman ^a   Dario Serpico, Pasquale ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

Author keywords

dark matter experiments; dark matter theory; neutrino experiments; ultra high energy photons and neutrinos

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888408545     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/11/054     Document Type: Article

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