Constraining dark matter late-time energy injection: Decays and p-wave annihilations

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Diamanti, Roberta ^a,b   Lopez Honorez, Laura ^c   Mena, Olga ^a   Palomares Ruiz, Sergio ^a   Vincent, Aaron C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c INTERNATIONAL SOLVAY INSTITUTES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

CMBR theory; dark matter theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897740645     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/02/017     Document Type: Article

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