Bremsstrahlung gamma rays from light dark matter

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Cirelli, Marco ^a   Serpico, Pasquale D ^b   Zaharijas, Gabrijela ^c  

^a DIF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^c ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

cosmic ray theory; dark matter theory; gamma ray theory; ray experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888632761     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/11/035     Document Type: Article

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