Constraining light dark matter with diffuse X-ray and gamma-ray observations

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Essig, Rouven ^a   Kuflik, Eric ^b   McDermott, Samuel D ^c,d   Volansky, Tomer ^b   Zurek, Kathryn M ^c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d NASA FERMILAB ASTROPHYSICS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology of theories beyond the SM; Supersymmetric effective theories; Supersymmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896272896     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2013)193     Document Type: Article

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