Dissecting the gamma-ray background in search of dark matter

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Cholis, Ilias ^a   Hooper, Dan ^a,b   McDermott, Samuel D ^a,c  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

dark matter theory; gamma ray theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897675063     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/02/014     Document Type: Article

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